I suspect that’s what happened with Afrikaans. The Dutch colonialists mixed with English and native speakers, leaving a language derived from Dutch but without gendered nouns, a different accent, and many foreign words integrated.

Afrikaans (one of my mother tongues) uses “die” for everything. The first time my (German speaking) partner overheard me saying “die man” he was so freaked out 😂 He still can’t deal with it, it’s just too wrong for his brain.