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2 sie 2024 · Afrikaans language, West Germanic language of South Africa, developed from 17th-century Dutch, sometimes called Netherlandic, by the descendants of European (Dutch, German, and French) colonists, indigenous Khoisan peoples, and African and Asian slaves in the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope.
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(or Cape Dutch), a South African language; official...
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Afrikaner, a South African of European descent whose native...
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1 dzień temu · Today, Afrikaans is recognised as one of the eleven official languages of South Africa, and is the third most common first language in South Africa. In June 2013, the Department of Basic Education included Afrikaans as an African language to be compulsory for all pupils.
4 dni temu · Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia; [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] it is a separate standard language rather than a national variety, unlike Netherlands Dutch, Belgian Dutch and Surinamese Dutch.
29 lip 2024 · Afrikaner, a South African of European descent whose native language is Afrikaans. They are descendants of the Boers. See Boer. Geography & Travel Human Geography Peoples of Africa. Herero. people. Written and fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
30 lip 2024 · South Africa is a multilingual country with eleven official languages, each reflecting a unique cultural heritage and history. English, though not the most widely spoken first language, is the primary language of business, politics, and media. It serves as a unifying language, bridging communication across the nation’s diverse linguistic landscape.
3 dni temu · White South Africans are South Africans of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical terms, they are generally divided into the Afrikaans-speaking descendants of the Dutch East India Company's original colonists, known as Afrikaners, and the Anglophone descendants of predominantly British colonists of South Africa.
28 lip 2024 · Afrikaans ( UK: /ˌæfrɪˈkɑːns/, US: /ˌɑːf-/, meaning 'African') [4][5] is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular [6][7] of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) [8][9] used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their slaves.
