Afrikaners

Also known as Afrikaner, Afrikaner people, Dutch South Africans

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Ethnic group.group: Afrikaners
Ethnic group.pop: 2.8–3.5 million
Ethnic group.pop1: 2,710,461 (2011)
Ethnic group.pop2: 92,400 (2003)
Ethnic group.pop3: ≈41,000 (2006)
Ethnic group.pop4: ≈40,000 (2006)
Ethnic group.pop5: ≈20,000 (2010)
Ethnic group.pop6: ≈13,000 (2006)
Ethnic group.pop7: 5,079 (2011)
Ethnic group.pop8: 1,197 (2013)
Ethnic group.pop9: 650 (2019)
Ethnic group.languages: First languageAfrikaansSecond or third language
Ethnic group.religions: Predominantly Reformed Christianity(see Afrikaner Calvinism; specifically: Dutch ReformedDutch Reformed of AfricaReformedAfrikaans Protestant)MinorityIrreligion (Atheism, Agnosticism) and Roman Catholicism

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: ethnic group
Subclass of: White Africans of European ancestry
Religion: Protestantism
Said to be same as: Boer

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topic's main category: Category:Afrikaner people
Commons category: Afrikaners
language used: Dutch
ancestral home: Netherlands
foods traditionally associated: Dutch cuisine
history of topic: Dutch East India Company

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Contents

Nomenclature
Population
1691 estimates
1754 estimates
1806 estimates
1936 Census
1960 Census
1985 Census
1996 Census
2001 Census
Distribution
2011 Census
History
Early Dutch settlement
Impact of the British occupation of the Cape
The Great Trek
Boer republics
Post Boer War diaspora
South West Africa
Genealogy
Non-European ancestry
Black Afrikaners
Modern history
Apartheid era
Post-apartheid era
Geography
South Africa
Namibia
Botswana
Afrikaner diaspora
Australia and New Zealand
North America
Canada
United States
The United Kingdom
Netherlands
Other
Culture
Religion
Language
Literature
Arts
Cuisine
Sport
Numismatics
Institutions
Cultural
Political
Notable people
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
External links

Afrikaners () are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers who first arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. Until 1994, they dominated South Africa's politics as well as the country's commercial and agricultural sector.

Afrikaans, a language which evolved from the Dutch dialect of South Holland, is the mother tongue of Afrikaners and most Cape Coloureds. According to the South African National Census of 2022, 10.6% of South Africans claimed to speak Afrikaans as a first language at home, making it the country's third-largest home language after Zulu and Xhosa.

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