Afrikaans
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38 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Origin
- Development
- Recognition
- Standardisation
- The Afrikaans Bible
- Classification
- Geographic distribution
- Statistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Mutual intelligibility with Dutch
- Current status
- Grammar
- Phonology
- Vowels
- Diphthongs
- Consonants
- Dialects
- Patagonian Afrikaans
- Namibian Afrikaans
- Influences on Afrikaans from other languages
- Malay
- Portuguese
- Khoisan languages
- Bantu languages
- French
- Orthography
- Initial apostrophes
- Table of characters
- Sample text
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
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Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and also Argentina, where a group in Sarmiento speaks a Patagonian dialect. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the predominantly Dutch settlers and enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony, where in the 17th and 18th centuries it gradually developed characteristics that distinguish it from Dutch.
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