Afrikaans - Wikipedia
WEBAfrikaans (/ ˌ æ f r ɪ ˈ k ɑː n s / AF-rih-KAHNSS, / ˌ ɑː f-,-ˈ k ɑː n z / AHF-, - KAHNZ) is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Learn Afrikaans for free
WEBEasy Afrikaans contains free online Afrikaans language courses. The lessons have audio recorded by native Afrikaans speakers. Easy Afrikaans will help you to start to learn the Afrikaans language. It is aimed at beginner level language learners and anyone who plans to visit South Africa.
What Is Afrikaans, And Where Is It Spoken? - Babbel.com
WEBFeb 1, 2024 · Similar to South Africa, Afrikaans is spoken by 10 percent of Namibia’s population (most of whom are white or multiracial speakers) and is commonly used as a lingua franca. Botswana, Eswatini and Zimbabwe all have modestly-sized Afrikaans-speaking populations.
Afrikaans language | Origin, History, & Facts | Britannica
WEBApr 17, 2024 · Afrikaans language, West Germanic language of South Africa, developed from 17th-century Dutch, sometimes called Netherlandic, by the descendants of European (Dutch, German, and French) colonists, indigenous Khoisan peoples, and African and Asian slaves in the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope.
Afrikaans language and alphabet - Omniglot
WEBAfrikaans is a Low Franconian West Germanic language descended from Dutch and spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia. In 2013 there were about 17 million speakers in South Africa, where Afrikaans is one of the Statutory national languages, and an official language in nine provinces.
Afrikaans - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WEBAfrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. It was originally the dialect that developed among the Afrikaner Protestant settlers , the unfree workers, and slaves brought to the Cape area in southwestern South Africa by the Dutch East India Company ( Dutch : Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie - VOC) between ...
Afrikaans: A Daughter Language of Dutch - YouTube
WEBToday's episode is all about the Afrikaans language, its history as a daughter language of Dutch, and I look into the question “How similar are Dutch and Afrikaans?”.
Learn Afrikaans for Beginners in 100 Easy Lessons - YouTube
WEBJun 3, 2020 · Welcome to our comprehensive Afrikaans course for beginners! In this series, we'll cover everything you need to know to start speaking and understanding Afri...
AfrikaansPod101 - Learn Afrikaans with Audio & Video Lessons
WEBYou learn Afrikaans fast and start speaking from your first lesson. Access 100s of Afrikaans online lessons at AfrikaansPod101. FREE lessons come out every week.
More than an oppressor’s language: reclaiming the hidden history …
WEBApr 27, 2017 · Afrikaans was labelled “the language of the oppressor”. The slogan was rightly an emotive, visceral response to Afrikaner ethnic, nationalist hegemony and its concomitant coercive state power.
