• apartheid, the South African government aimed to establish Afrikaans as the primary lingua franca in South Africa and South African-controlled South-West...
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    countries and territories where Afrikaans or Dutch are official languages. It includes countries, which have Afrikaans and/or Dutch as (one of) their nationwide...
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    Cape Malays (category Articles containing Afrikaans-language text)
    practising Muslim, despite Afrikaans having overtaken Malay as the group's lingua franca. The community adopted Afrikaans as a lingua franca to ease communication...
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  • as Dutch, Afrikaans, and Estonian. There are at least three different "dialects," or variations, of Língua do Pê. This "dialect" of Língua do Pê is just...
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    Portuguese (endonym: português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the...
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  • This article describes the grammar of Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa and Namibia which originated from 17th century Dutch.[citation needed]...
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    Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu and English, which is the primary language used in parliamentary...
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    black Zimbabweans. Historically, a minority of white Zimbabweans spoke Afrikaans, Greek, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese, among other languages, while...
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    to make up over 11% of the District Municipality's population. Afrikaans is the lingua franca in the Northern Cape because the majority of the province's...
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    Dutch language (category CS1 Afrikaans-language sources (af))
    basic level of communication in Afrikaans; see Webb 2003, p. 7 McLean & McCormick 1996, p. 333. Afrikaans is a lingua franca of Namibia; see Deumert 2004...
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    well be greeted in Afrikaans; relatively fewer signs are in Afrikaans but the language retains a leading position as a spoken lingua franca in Windhoek...
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    Languages of Africa (category CS1 Afrikaans-language sources (af))
    to Africa, are spoken in South Africa and Namibia (Afrikaans, English, German) and are used as lingua francas in Liberia and the former colonies of the...
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    with 24 million native speakers. Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch originating from the Afrikaners of South Africa...
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  • on Zulu with input from English and a small amount of Afrikaans input. It is used as a lingua franca, mainly in the gold, diamond, coal and copper mining...
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    despite the fact that in most areas and in Windhoek, the broader lingua franca is Afrikaans while English is now often the sole language used in many other...
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    Gayle language (category Afrikaans-language culture)
    Gayle, or Gail, is an English- and Afrikaans-based gay argot or slang used primarily by English and Afrikaans-speaking homosexual men in urban communities...
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  • language, such as national, literary, liturgical or scientific idiom, or a lingua franca, used to facilitate communication across a large area. As a border...
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  • language") is designated the bahasa persatuan/pemersatu ("unifying language" or lingua franca) whereas the term "Malay" (bahasa Melayu) is domestically restricted...
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  • sobre a cooficialização da língua do "talian", à língua portuguesa, no município de Nova Roma do Sul" O Talian agora é a língua co-oficial de Nova Roma do...
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  • resemble from Afyonkarahisar". (Afyonkarahisar is a city in Turkey.) Afrikaans, as it is a daughter language of the Dutch language, is capable of forming...
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    language. In Cyprus, it does not have official status but is widely used as a lingua franca. English is spoken as a first or second language in most of the Commonwealth...
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  • Diphthong (category Articles containing Afrikaans-language text)
    pronounced with /əʊ̯/, the Afrikaans equivalent tends to be pronounced with /œʊ̯/, rather than /ʊə/. That happens because Afrikaans /œʊ̯/ is more similar to...
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  • entitled Afrikaans verb clusters. A functional-head Analysis and explores the hierarchy of functional heads between the IP and vP in Afrikaans. He was...
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    sounds, in his Ɛpistola del Trissino de le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua italiana ("Trissino's epistle about the letters recently added in the Italian...
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  • three working languages: English, Turkish, and Russian. Heritage language Lingua franca International auxiliary language List of official languages of international...
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  • both by Afrikaans and indigenous African languages. Namlish comes from literal translations, mostly from Oshiwambo, Kavango languages and Afrikaans, but...
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    Pretoria (category Pages with Afrikaans IPA)
    Pretoria (/prɪˈtɔːriə, pri-/prih-TOR-ee-ə, pree-; Afrikaans: [prəˈtʊəria] ), also known as Tshwane, is South Africa's administrative capital, serving...
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  • KykNet) and therefore changing the lingua franca of the show from English to Afrikaans as KykNET is solely an Afrikaans network. On 13 April 2007, M-Net...
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  • (affectionately called Sepitori/S'pitori by its speakers), is the urban lingua franca of Pretoria and the Tshwane metropolitan area in South Africa. It...
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    Open-mid central unrounded vowel (category Articles containing Afrikaans-language text)
    Wendel (1978), p. 198. Santiago (2010), pp. 1, 8–10. Volpe, Luigi (2011). La lingua dei masciaioli : dizionario del dialetto di Accettura, cittadina lucana...
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