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== Orthography ==
 
==== Major changes from Hollandic Dutch: ====
In many cases older orthography and spelling is preserved from early modern Dutch.
 
ei -> ey    (eenheid -> eenheyd)
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d  -> dt   (stad -> stadt), only when at end of syllable
 
f -> v (kalf -> kalv), onlf at the end of words
In many cases older orthography and spelling is preserved from early modern Dutch.
 
In other cases double vowels (long vowels) are reduced and replaced with by a vowel with a diacritic.
 
oo -> ö (Voorlandt -> Vörlandt)
 
uu -> ue
 
ee -> î
 
oe -> ü
 
Yet in other cases constants are doubled.
 
m -> mm (Komen -> Komme)
 
l -> ll
 
== Grammar ==
the corruption of -tie into -sie (politie -> polisie)
 
== Pronouns and Verb Conjugations ==
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="5" rowspan="1" |Pronouns and Verb Conjugations
|-
| colspan="1" rowspan="2" |English
| colspan="1" rowspan="2" |Amerikaens
| colspan="1" rowspan="2" |Dutch
| colspan="2" rowspan="1" |
|-
|Singular
|Plural
|-
|I
|Ik/ äk
|Ik
|Ik ben
| -
|-
|You
|Jÿ
|Jij, U
|Jij ben
|
|-
|He
|Hÿ
|Hij
|Hÿ is
| -
|-
|She
|Sÿ
|Zij
|Sÿ is
| -
|-
|We
|Wÿ
|Wij
|Wÿ is
|
|-
|It
|It
|Het
|It is
|}
 
== Vocabulary ==
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