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An official language of the Republic of South Africa
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afrikaans
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Germanic language of South Africa, the Dutch language as spoken in South Africa, 1892, from Dutch Afrikaansch "Africanish" (see Afrikander ). Also known as South African Dutch .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to the Afrikaans language. n. 1 A Germanic language descending from Dutch; the primary language of the descendants of Dutch and other European settlers, as well as many mixed-race (e.g. (w Baster Rehoboth Basters)) living in South Africa ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Afrikaans (, , or ) is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa , Namibia , and to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe . It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland ( Hollandic dialect ) spoken by the mainly Dutch settlers of what is ...
Usage examples of afrikaans.
Aletta Gous, banned from entry into premises where printing or publishing was done, had lost her job as a proof-reader of Afrikaans textbooks and was working, when last Rosa was in touch with her, with some organization that tried to make popular among blacks a cheap, high protein food.
We spoke in Afrikaans and in the usual tones, mine kindly but authori tative, his hesitant and unsure whether he was to expect demand, rebuke or a request he would be reluctant to stir for.
The dress was merely uninteresting, not unconventional in the striking way he liked loose clothes on the tall bodies of the Afrikaans state theatre actresses and art school lec turers who were the women he kept around him.
Like many blacks from their home country-his and hers-for whom English and Afrikaans are lingue franche, not mother tongues, he used the Afrikaans phrase translated literally, instead of the English equivalent.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe wins the elections the Afrikaans parents drive up to the school, making a long snake of cars like a funeral procession, to collect their kids.
The Afrikaans fathers stay in the car park, leaning against their cars, smoking and talking quietly to each other in Afrikaans.
There was the crackle and buzz of static followed by some faint extraneous snatches of Afrikaans, then an excited voice speaking in Shangane, very close and loud.
They were that much closer to the border on the Limpopo River, and to Sean the sound of Afrikaans was a comfort and a promise.
An undistinguished, rural family, bad schooling, the Afrikaans language: from each of these component handicaps he has, more or less, escaped.
With the ghost of Afrikaans still in his ears, he is at home in the syntax.
Though it is years since he spoke Afrikaans, he can feel himself relax at once as though sliding into a warm bath.
Speaking Afrikaans in this country, he wants to tell her, is like speaking Nazi, if there were such a language.
Boom, the late-twentieth-century, half Zulu, half Afrikaans, chief engineer, met them.
Granpa spoke no Afrikaans and she no English so she thumped up and down in silence with her chins squashing onto her chest with every bump of the old truck.
She was happy enough, to put my poor results down to my inability to grasp the subtlety of the Afrikaans language as well as being the youngest in class, whereas I already spoke Zulu and Shangaan and, like most small kids, found learning a new language simple enough.