The term is derived from the Dutch term Afrikaansch (now spelled Afrikaans) meaning "African". It was previously referred to as "Cape Dutch" (a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers)

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Origin
The Afrikaans language arose in the Dutch Cape Colony, through a gradual divergence from European Dutch dialects, during the course of the 18th century. As early as the mid-18th century and as recently as the mid-20th

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Statistics
Sociolinguistics
Some state that instead of Afrikaners, which refers to an ethnic group, the terms Afrikaanses or

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Post-apartheid South Africa has seen a loss of preferential treatment by the government for Afrikaans, in terms of education, social events,

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Following early dialectal studies of Afrikaans, it was theorised that three main historical dialects probably existed after the Great Trek in the 1830s. These dialects are the Northern Cape,

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Malay
Due to the early settlement of a Cape Malay community in Cape Town, who are now known as Coloureds, numerous Classical Malaywords

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In Afrikaans grammar, there is no distinction between the infinitive and present forms of verbs, with the exception of the verbs 'to be' and 'to have':
In addition, verbs do not conjugate differently depending on the subject. For example,

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