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Dutch-Moroccan ethnolect has its own flavour
Does the Dutch-Moroccan ethnic group speak 'street language' (urban slang) or just a modified version of standard Dutch? According to postdoctoral researcher Khalid Mourigh of Leiden University, it's an ethnolect, or what he likes to call 'Moroccan Flavoured Dutch' (MFD), a term coined by two linguists Jacomine Nortier and Margreet Dorleijn back in 2006. Interestingly, [...]