• in which were originally added SeTswana terms, and later terms from IsiXhosa, IsiZulu and other South African languages. Tsotsitaal spread first as a...
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    Oxford Bilingual School Dictionary: isiXhosa and English (2014). Gericke, W. Die Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal — 'n Kultuurhistoriese verkenning. University...
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  • Also known as 'tsotsi taal' or 'township talk', scamto is a new youth language that has formed in South Africa. Spoken usually only by the youth, scamto...
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    be regarded as a characteristic of beauty for girls among the Tswana and Xhosa people. However, a recent scholar could not discern from the original study...
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    themselves as Black African, 11.98% as Coloured and 9.4% as White. 69.2% spoke Xhosa as their home language, 20.1% spoke Afrikaans, 3.3% spoke Sotho, 1.4% spoke...
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    Nederlandse taal, which contains some 268,826 headwords. In the field of linguistics, the 45,000-page Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal is also widely...
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    Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (HAT). A new authoritative dictionary, called Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT), was under development as...
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    dissatisfaction with the British administration, constant frontier wars with the Xhosa to the east, and growing shortages of land, the Trekboers eventually went...
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    Cape Colony, George McCall Theal, Clowes, 1837-1919 Één taal, twee uitspraaknormen, Onze Taal, June 1999, pages 148-150 Nederlands in het perspectief...
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  • babbelbekkie – someone who talks a lot babelaas / babbelas – hangover (of Xhosa origin) bakgat – cool; expression of appreciation for something very well...
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    leader. Shunning colonial authority, he emigrated in 1834 to live among the Xhosa across the native reserve frontier, before he crossed the Orange River into...
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  • from the original on 1 December 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2023. "gam". Mzansi Taal - Online Dictionary of Township Lingo. 2 October 2018. Archived from the...
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    frontier sparked the Xhosa Wars. Harsh Boer attitudes towards black Africans were permanently shaped by their contact with the Xhosa, which bred insecurity...
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    with 14 wagons. Moving through the Eastern Cape, they were welcomed by the Xhosa who were in dispute with the neighbouring Zulu King Dingane ka Senzangakhona...
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    journal de Zuid-Afrikaan under the title "Is die Afferkaans wesenlijk een taal?" The eight founding members were Gideon Malherbe, the Dutch immigrant CP...
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    westward expansion of the Xhosa people. Hoping to avoid being drawn into a protracted dispute, the Dutch government and the Xhosa chieftains agreed to formally...
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    2012 - Annex "Afrikaans". Ethnologue. "Dutch". Ethnologue. "Nederlandse taal in de Grondwet" [Dutch language in the Constitution]. denederlandsegrondwet...
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    as "White". 57.4% spoke Afrikaans as their first language, 30.7% spoke Xhosa and 6.9% spoke English. In the 1936 Census the town had a total population...
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    een lichaam in 't leven worde geroepen ter bevordering van de Hollandse taal en letteren in Zuid-Afrika" (that one organisation be established to promote...
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  • facilitated the translation of the Bible into many other languages, including Xhosa, Herero and Tswana. Both Jan Steyn's parents were awarded honorary doctorates...
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  • on 2016-03-20. Retrieved 2016-03-17. "datumnotatie" (in Dutch). Belgium: Taal Telefoon. Archived from the original on 2017-05-22. Retrieved 2017-06-01...
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    her left arm. On the tablet are the words 'De overwinning der Hollandse Taal'. The figure stands on a massive granite base with suitable inscriptions...
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  • of a road in the Jarwa reserve forest, Andaman Islands". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 158 (4): 799–820. JSTOR 27867994. Saini, Ajay (13...
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    and English or Chinese and Malay South Africa (from Afrikaans, Sesotho, Xhosa, Zulu & Bhojpuri language into English) South Korea (subtitles in Korean...
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    of resistance in an early colonial context, 1650-1769". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 163 (1): 8. ISSN 0006-2294. JSTOR 27868341. Niner...
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    from a verb -lima 'cultivate', e.g., Giryama kirimira, Kaguru chilimia; Xhosa and Zulu isilimela; Sotho and Tswana selemela; Tsonga shirimela, Venda tshilimela;...
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  • German Linguistics] (in Dutch). 1768. p. 173 ff . "Woordenboek der Friese taal". De Geïntegreerde Taalbank. Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie. Retrieved...
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    Literary varieties used by Shaykh Hanif Edwards (1906–1958)". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 163 (2–3): 289–325. doi:10.1163/22134379-90003687...
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  • Vlaamse Gebarentaal de taal is van de Dovengemeenschap in Vlaanderen, (2) de Vlaamse overheid aanvaardt het bestaan van die taal ook op juridisch vlak...
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    SaFM - English    Good Hope FM - English/Afrikaans    Tru FM - English/Xhosa    RSG - Afrikaans    Ukhozi FM - Zulu    8 regional languages Lotus FM...
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