Australian Afrikaans

How could an Australian Arikaans-esque language develop?

Obviously, the POD would have to be the establishment of a successful Dutch colony in Australia, but besides that, would the history of Dutch-Australians have to be similar to their cousins in South Africa to produce an Afrikaans-esque language, or could the same result be achieved through a different path?
 
How could an Australian Arikaans-esque language develop?

Obviously, the POD would have to be the establishment of a successful Dutch colony in Australia, but besides that, would the history of Dutch-Australians have to be similar to their cousins in South Africa to produce an Afrikaans-esque language, or could the same result be achieved through a different path?
You mean a language that is derived from Dutch, but isn't considered Dutch? You probably just need a Dutch colony in Australia that for some reason is seperated from the Netherlands, so it can develope its own language. The hard parts are to get the Dutch establish a colony in Australia and to break the link with the Netherlands, like another country conquering it and not completely assimilating it like with the New Netherlands.
 
Formal separation might not be necessary.

Just keep it a small isolated settlement.
Maybe only one ship visiting every year.
I mean, what's there in New Holland worth shipping all the way back to Europe?

Cultural inbreeding will do the rest.
 
New Jersey Dutch developed around the same time as Afrikaans, but died out about a century ago. It had relatively few speakers throughout its existence (about 300 years). I think it even underwent some similar grammatical simplification as Afrikaans. For an Australian Dutch you'd just need a decent number of fairly isolated Dutch immigrants.
 
Actually if you look at Australian English, especially Broad Australian or 'strine you can see a use of Aboriginal loan words similar to that of Afrikaans. My solution would be for a small Dutch colony to be establish in Van Diemans land (Tasmania) very early and then basically ignored for a couple of centuries, just like the Cape.
 
A logical spot for Dutch Australia would be Swan River, not Tasmania.

Remember the Batavia! A Dutch ship following the westerlies to reach Indonesia crashed on landfall to Houtman Abrolhos.

Now suppose that East India Company plants a colony at, say, Swan River mouth. A small castle, a few hundred farmers in the immediate vicinity, a few small sailing ships and boats, maybe a few lighthouses. And a scattering of outposts, with a few settlers farming and trading with local Aboriginals on coast each hundred kilometres or so.

An East Indiaman coming from Kaapstad can target a landfall at Rottnest Island Lighthouse, take fresh water and fresh supplies - then turn to Batavia.

And if any ship misses a landfall and wrecks either north or south of Swan River, local friendly aboriginals would bring a word to the next station, the squatter there would promptly send a horse rider to Swan River and a few boats would return to supply and evacuate the castaways.

The Dutch who get sick in the hot tropical climate of Batavia can be evacuated to the rather more moderate climate of Swan River. Much closer at hand than all the way to Holland, or even Kaapstad.

Also supplies from Mediterranean climate that do not grow in Java can be imported from Swan River, not from Europe.

Would this make economic sense?

Note: if the colony is closely connected to supplying Batavia, you can expect the Dutch to import a fair number of Sundanese and Malays. With their tongue and race.
 
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