Is Afrikaans the worlds youngest langauge?

Answer 1

Yes, it Is the youngest REAL language. It was said to have become its own language (separate from Dutch) in the early 1900s.

However, Esperanto was developed in the mid-1900s. Esperanto, unlike Afrikaans, is a manufactured language. It didn't develop over time, it was just created by linguists, so it's not really the same, but you could say it is the youngest.

Answer 2

name Afrikaans is simply the Dutch word for African, i.e. the African form of the Dutch language. The dialect became known as "Cape Dutch". Later, Afrikaans was sometimes also referred to as "African Dutch" or "Kitchen Dutch", although some now consider these terms pejorative. Afrikaans was considered a Dutch dialect until the late 19th century, when it began to be recognised as a distinct language, and it gained equal status with Dutch and English as an official language in South Africa in 1925. Dutch remained an official language until the new 1961 constitution finally stipulated the two official languages in South Africa to be Afrikaans and English (although, curiously, the 1961 constitution still had a sub-clause stipulating that the word "Afrikaans" was also meant to be referring to the Dutch language). The 1925 decision led Dutch to enter disuse and be replaced by Afrikaans for all purposes

Answer 3

If you mean in the sense of a functioning, living and natural language used in everyday life, and not some obscure constructed language like Esperanto, then Afrikaans is not the youngest.

I don't know if there are others, but Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN) occured naturally by illiterate children in Nicaraguan schools for the deaf. It wasn't taught to them, the children invented it themselves and in only a few decades it became a full language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language

It has absolutely no relation to ASL (American Sign Language) or any other. The children had only a modest grasp of written Spanish before ISN emerged.


Additional:

What sort of moron would give thumb down to a factual answer to a neutral question? Does the moron hate deaf people or Latinos?


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Answer 4

They say all people came from Africa.
Moved all over the planet and that's how
there are so many cultures. They don't
say how the languages changed.
I can see that if you move from hot Africa,
to colder climates, you might not be so
tan anymore. But I don't see speaking
an African dialect, then starting to speak
Chinese or German....unless the Africans
had no real language, at the time of the move.
I have always believed the oldest spoken
language to be that of the Chinese. The
oldest written language is Sumerian Hieroglyphs.

Answer 5

yes i'm think so .1900's ,but it started in the 1780's to 1820's