AH Challenge: Dutch as a second language

  • Dutch Revolt results in united Netherlands in the 1600s
  • Dutch have more settlers in New Netherlands but still lose it to the English, English crack down on Dutch and they have a Voortrek into the American frontier
  • Dutch keep more Caribbean islands
  • Dutch keep Brazil
  • Dutch keep South Africa and actually settle more Dutch in it. Let's say there's an early discovery of gold and diamonds for this. Results in Dutch settlement all the way into Zimbabwe and Zambia
  • Dutch keep Ghana
  • Dutch take Indonesia, Malaysia, all of New Guinea
  • Dutch keep Taiwan and Sri Lanka
  • Dutch settle some people in either New Zealand or Australia or both. Don't have to keep it, just have to have Dutch people there before others take over it
 
A dialect called "Jersey Dutch" was spoken in Northern New Jersey until the 1930's. ...

The Dutch Reformed Church congregation in Demotte Indiana did not cease church services in Dutch until the very early 1960s. When I attended the town festival circa 1999 - 2004 the elderly folks were still showing off speaking in their version of Dutch

NE Illinois around St Anne had residual French in use into the early 1960s. While the Amish & German Baptists in my region of Indiana use little German vocabulary their grammar is as much German as English.
 
  • Dutch Revolt results in united Netherlands in the 1600s[
Or more specifically, southern OTL Netherlands, the whole Flanders (northern Belgium) and Dusseldorf region, especially if there's an existing Frisian-speaking entity in its north.

  • Dutch keep South Africa and actually settle more Dutch in it. Let's say there's an early discovery of gold and diamonds for this. Results in Dutch settlement all the way into Zimbabwe and Zambia
Possibly, although there's a tendency to intermarry with the Khoisans
 
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