Afrikaans | |
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Pronunciation | [afriˈkɑːns] |
Native to | |
Region | Southern Africa |
Ethnicity | Afrikaners Basters Cape Coloureds Cape Malays Griqua Oorlams |
Native speakers | 7.2 million (2016) 10.3 million L2 speakers in South Africa (2011)[1] |
Early forms | |
Dialects | |
Latin script (Afrikaans alphabet), Arabic script | |
Signed Afrikaans[2] | |
Official status | |
Official language in | South Africa |
Recognised minority language in | |
Regulated by | Die Taalkommissie |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | af |
ISO 639-2 | afr |
ISO 639-3 | afr |
Glottolog | afri1274 |
Linguasphere | 52-ACB-ba |
spoken by a majority spoken by a minority | |
Afrikaans (/ˌæfrɪˈkɑːns/ AF-rih-KAHNSS, /ˌɑːf-, -ˈkɑːnz/ AHF-, -KAHNZ)[3][4] is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular[5][6] of South Holland (Hollandic dialect)[7][8] spoken by the predominantly Dutch settlers and enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.[9]
Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages, including German and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin.[n 1] Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch often lie in the more analytic morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and different spellings.[n 2] There is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages, especially in written form.[10]
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