Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia (see Namibian Afrikaans); it is a separate standard language rather...
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of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin. Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch often lie in the more analytic morphology and grammar of Afrikaans...
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1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition...
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Boers (redirect from List of Boers)
Empire in 1806. The name of the group is derived from Trekboer then later "boer", which means "farmer" in Dutch and Afrikaans. In addition, the term Boeren...
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Afrikaans is a form of Afrikaans brought to Argentina by Boer immigrants following the Second Boer War (1899–1902). Today, there are still Afrikaans-speaking...
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This article describes the grammar of Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa and Namibia from the Indo-European, West Germanic, Low Franconiane...
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/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Afrikaans has a similar phonology to other West Germanic languages, especially Dutch. Afrikaans...
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Free Burghers (Dutch: Vrijburger, Afrikaans: Vryburger) were early primarily Dutch colonists in the 18th century who had been released of their service...
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Xhosa (16.3%), and Afrikaans (10.6%). Between 1996 and 2022, the proportion of Afrikaans speakers declined from 14.5% to 10.6% and English held steady...
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West Frisian language (redirect from History of the West Frisian language)
2005 revealed native Dutch speakers understood 31.9% of a West Frisian newspaper, 66.4% of an Afrikaans newspaper and 97.1% of a Dutch newspaper. However...
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Afrikaans had become a language in its own right separate from Dutch; prior to that, the Dutch Statenbijbel had been used instead. The translation of...
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West Germanic languages (redirect from List of West Germanic languages)
includes Afrikaans, Yiddish, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Hunsrik, and Scots. Additionally, several creoles, patois, and pidgins are based on Dutch, English...
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Netherlands (redirect from Dutch (country))
informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the...
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and Dutch, with 24 million native speakers. Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch originating from the Afrikaners of South...
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Hypothesis for Deflexion, supported by the comparison between Germanic languages (for instance, Icelandic and Afrikaans), this process is attributed to language...
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Final-obstruent devoicing (redirect from Voicing of final obstruents)
appearing in Old Dutch around the 9th or 10th century. Afrikaans Central Franconian (Luxembourgish and Ripuarian) Dutch, also Old and Middle Dutch (High) German...
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of whom adopted the Dutch language and were instrumental in shaping it into a new regional dialect, Afrikaans. In 1691, there were at least 660 Dutch...
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German grammar (redirect from Structure of German grammar)
before tens as in Afrikaans, Early Modern English, Danish, Dutch, Yiddish and Frisian, e.g. twenty-one: one-and-twenty. Students of German are often advised...
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This is a comparison of both historical and current web browsers based on developer, engine, platform(s), releases, license, and cost. Basic general information...
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Afrikaans and replace Dutch as the official language of the Afrikaners. As the 18th century drew to a close, Dutch mercantile power began to fade and...
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Swellendam (category Pages with Afrikaans IPA)
Swellendam (Afrikaans: [ˈsvæləndam]) is the third oldest town in South Africa (after Cape Town and Stellenbosch), a town with 17,537 inhabitants situated...
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Durbanville (category CS1 Afrikaans-language sources (af))
the Afrikaans words pampoen meaning pumpkin, and kraal meaning corral - an enclosure for livestock). This name was attributed to the town because of a pumpkin...
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Huguenots (redirect from Dutch Huguenot)
Huguenot refugees in the Dutch Republic and its former colonies in North America and South Africa, 1650 to 1750: a comparison". South African Historical...
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Mass media in South Africa (redirect from Freedom of the press in South Africa)
Huisgenoot, You and Drum. The Afrikaans language family magazine Huisgenoot has the largest circulation of any South African magazine and is followed by...
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YouPorn (category American erotica and pornography websites)
all-male and one all-female team. Internet portal Erotica and pornography portal Comparison of video services Internet pornography List of video hosting...
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Characterising a minority language: a social psychological comparison between Dutch, Frisian and the Ljouwert vernacular, in: Durk Gorter, Jarich F. Hoekstra...
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Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias (category Language comparison)
In Afrikaans, trieng In Basque, dilin-dalan In Catalan, ding-dong, ring-ring, meec... In Croatian, din don In Danish, ding ding, ring ring In Dutch, tring...
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List of online map services GraphHopper Navteq Petal Maps Online virtual globes Tencent Maps Traffic Message Channel (TMC) "Bing Maps Geographic Coverage"...
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basic comparisons for notable text editors. More feature details for text editors are available from the Category of text editor features and from the...
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Anglo-Frisian languages (category Articles containing Dutch-language text)
one to 12 in the Anglo-Frisian languages, with Dutch, West-Flemish and German included for comparison: * Ae [eː], [jeː] is an adjectival form used before...
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