Re: "a relatively little used language"
For a Dutchman Afrikaans is close enough to Dutch that the brain will try to understand it but at the same time get a massive headache because you can't understand a word of it.
I have that with the language they speak in Luxembourg. It's like a Denial of Service attack on my brain the way their language makes it switch between all the languages I speak, trying to get *some* sort of grip on it (and fails totally).