26/09/2021 · Afrikaans is a Low Franconian West Germanic language descended from Dutch and spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia. In 2013 there were about 17 million speakers in South Africa, where Afrikaans is one of the Statutory national languages, and an official language in …

17/01/2018 · Afrikaans is the first language of most Afrikaner and Coloured people of Southern Africa. It is a West Germanic Language and it is spoken in South Africa, Namibia, and to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Afrikaans is South Africa’s third mother tongue; it is spoken by fifteen percent of the population.

08/03/2019 · To add to this, Afrikaans has its own local dialects, including a secret prison jargon infused with the African language, Zulu. Today, these dialects are mainly distinguished by geographical location, but, thanks to standardization, are …

Afrikaans language, also called Cape Dutch, 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.

28/01/2022 · Afrikaans is a language spoken predominantly in South Africa. Derived from Dutch, it shares many similarities with this language and is therefore also similar to English in many respects. There are more than 12 million speakers, with roughly half of them speaking it as their first language, and the other half speaking it as a second or third language.

Afrikaans Start. Afrikaans is one of the worlds youngest languages and has around 8 million speakers. It is relatively easy for English speakers to acquire a working knowledge of Afrikaans due to its germanic origins. A working knowledge is of course different from having an appreciation of the subtleties and finer points.

Afrikaans is the daughter language of Dutch and the term “Afrikaans” is actually Dutch for African. Nearly 90-95% of Afrikaans vocabulary is of Dutch origin! One of the easiest Germanic languages, it is spoken mainly in South Africa and Nambia.