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Agree, it's equally strange that the (alleged, I don't know) 30,000 speakers in the Netherlands are only mentioned somewhere else in the text, not in that table.Joekiedoe (talk)11:15, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
”The diminutive suffix in Afrikaans is -tjie, -djie or -ie, whereas in Dutch it is -tje or dje, hence a "bit" is ʼn bietjie in Afrikaans and beetje in Dutch.”
This contains certainly one error and probably several errors.
There is definitely no Dutch diminutive suffix form “-dje”. If “dje” occurs as the last part of a diminutive form, the “d” is part of the root of the word, e.g. liedje, lidje, leedje, ledje, meidje, stuudje, studje, huidje, bloedje, broodje, bodje, woudje, paadje, padje, deugdje, voogdje, maagdje, smaragdje, schildje, beeldje, speldje, schuldje, koboldje, naaldje, wereldje, beemdje, hemdje, vriendje, kindje, eendje, endje, eindje, rundje, hondje, maandje, mandje, duizendje, zwoerdje, lieverdje, nerdje, boordje, bordje, gaardje, gardje, honderdje, etc.
The rules for the Dutch diminutive forms are moderately complicated. Suffice it to say that the diminutive suffix surfaces as one of (only) five forms: -je, -pje, -tje, -kje and -etje.
According tohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ie#Afrikaans, Afrikaans similarly has: -jie, -pie, -tjie, -kie and -etjie. Under the assumption that this is the full list of forms, “-ie” and “-djie” are not diminutive forms.
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