Afrikaans

Also known as Afrikaans language, African language

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Key facts

Language.agency: Die Taalkommissie
Language.minority: Namibia
Language.iso1: af
Language.iso2: afr
Language.iso3: none
Language.glotto: afri1274
Language.glottorefname: Afrikaans
Language.lingua: 52-ACB-ba
Language.map: Idioma afrikáans.png
Language.map2: Lang Status 80-VU.svg
Language.notice: IPA
Language.dia1: Kaaps
Language.dia2: Boeraans
Language.dia3: Eastern Cape
Language.dia4: Northern Cape
Language.dia5: Patagonian
Language.dia6: Namibian
Language.fam6: Dutch

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Wikidata facts

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Commons category: Afrikaans language
Wikimedia language code: af
native label: Afrikaans
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 10300000
exact match: apics-online.info/contributions/29
short name: африкаанс
P10369: French
NCI Thesaurus ID: C153828

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Article

38 sections

Contents

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.