Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).

Although Afrikaans adopted words from languages such as Malay, Portuguese, the Bantu languages, and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95 percent of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin.

In neighbouring Namibia, Afrikaans is widely spoken as a second language and used as lingua franca, while as a native language it is spoken in 11 percent of households, mainly concentrated in the capital Windhoek and the southern regions of Hardap and Karas.

* In Germanic languages, except English, East Sea is used: Afrikaans ( Oossee ), Danish ( Østersøen ), Dutch ( Oostzee ), German ( Ostsee ), Icelandic and Faroese ( Eystrasalt ), Norwegian ( Østersjøen ), and Swedish ( Östersjön ).

Tropical grasslands are known as savanna in Australia, whereas in southern Africa it is known as certain kinds of veld ( from Afrikaans ).

Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

Boer is the specific ethnic group within the larger Afrikaans speaking population.

Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

After identifying a need for a church for Afrikaans speakers living in Holland, a church was established in Leusden and is known as Suiderkruis Kerk.

The name ' de Klerk ' ( literally meaning " the clerk " in Dutch ) is derived from Le Clerc, Le Clercq, and de Clercq and is of French Huguenot origin, as are a great number of other Afrikaans surnames, reflecting the French Huguenot refugees who settled in the Cape beginning in the 17th century alongside the Dutch, after they escaped religious persecution in France.

It is widely used in the Afrikaans, Catalan, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Bahasa Indonesia, Scandinavian and German languages, with the same meaning.

Chinese and Afrikaans, for example, are highly analytic, and meaning is therefore very context-dependent.

Kameelperd is also the name for the species in Afrikaans.

Below is the conjugation of the verb to be in the present tense ( of the infinitive, if it exists, and indicative moods ), in English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Latvian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Polish, Slovenian, Hindi, Persian, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Albanian, Armenian, Irish, Ancient Attic Greek and Modern Greek.

Van Melle's best known work is Bart Nel, a classic of Afrikaans literature.

The Kalahari Desert ( in Afrikaans " Dorsland ", meaning " thirst land " or " thirsty land ") is a large semi-arid sandy savannah in Southern Africa extending, covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa.

Rijk is the Dutch and Afrikaans equivalent of German Reich.

" Sea cow " ( seekoei ) is also the name for a hippopotamus in Afrikaans.

This ritual is known as pronking from the Afrikaans meaning to boast or show off.

South African singer / songwriter Gert Vlok Nel compares Tintin to God in his Afrikaans song " Waarom ek roep na jou vanaand ", presumably because Tintin is a morally pure character.

In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, the word " truck " is mostly reserved for larger vehicles ; in Australia and New Zealand, a pickup truck is usually called a ute ( short for " utility "), while in South Africa it is called a bakkie ( Afrikaans: " container ").

However, all modern Germanic languages save English and Scots retain the more general sense: for example, German Tier, Alemannic Diere or Tiere, Pennsylvania Dutch Gedier, Dutch dier, Afrikaans dier, Limburgish diere, Norwegian dyr, Swedish djur, Danish dyr, Icelandic dýr, Faroese dýr, West Frisian dier, and North Frisian diarten, all of which mean " animal.

It has cognates in other Germanic languages — for example tonge in West Frisian, tong in Dutch / Afrikaans, tunge in Danish / Norwegian and tunga in Icelandic / Faroese / Swedish.

The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three traditional branches of the Germanic family of languages and include languages such as German, English, Dutch, Afrikaans, the Frisian languages, and Yiddish.

The South West Africa People's Organization ( SWAPO ) ( German: Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO, Afrikaans: Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volk-Organisasie, SWAVO ) is a political party and former liberation movement in Namibia.

In order to bolster support for a republic, the voting age for Whites was lowered from twenty-one to eighteen, benefiting younger Afrikaans speakers, who were more likely to favour a republic, and the franchise was extended to whites in South West Africa, most of whom were German or Afrikaans speakers.

This also applied to German and Dutch programmes dubbed in Afrikaans, such as the German detective series Derrick Dutch soap opera Medisch Centrum West, known as Hospitaal Wes Amsterdam.

The White minority of South West Africa, predominantly German and Afrikaans, considered its interests akin to those of the Afrikaners in South Africa and therefore supported the National Party in subsequent elections.

* Koevoet ( which is Afrikaans and Dutch for crowbar ), a South West African Police counterinsurgency unit

Krugersdorp ( Afrikaans for Kruger's town ) is a mining city with between 378, 821 and 408, 065 inhabitants in the West Rand of the Gauteng province of South Africa.

Leeudoringstad ( Afrikaans for Lion thorn city ) is a small farming town situated on the main Cape Town-Johannesburg railway line in North West Province of South Africa.

Rustenburg (;, Afrikaans and Dutch: Town of Rest ) is a city situated at the foot of the Magaliesberg mountain range in North West Province of South Africa.

Stilfontein ( Afrikaans for quiet spring ) is a mining town with 96, 242 inhabitants, situated between Klerksdorp and Potchefstroom in North West Province of South Africa.

Wolmaransstad ( Afrikaans for " Wolmarans City ") is a maize-farming town situated on the N12 between Johannesburg and Kimberley in North West Province of South Africa.

Barkly West ( Afrikaans: Barkly-Wes ) is a town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, situated on the north bank of the Vaal River west of Kimberley.

It forms a bridge between the large, shining West and the magical Africa ... And what great things may come from their union – that is maybe what lies ahead for Afrikaans to discover.

The South West Party ( in Afrikaans: Suidwes Party, in German: Südwestpartei ) was a political party in Namibia.

Koevoet ( pronounced ) ( Afrikaans and Dutch for crowbar ), also known as Operation K and officially denoted as the South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Unit ( SWAPOL-COIN ), was a paramilitary-trained police counter insurgency unit in South-West Africa during the Namibian Independence War.

The SAP established Operation K — popularly known as Koevoet ( Afrikaans for " crowbar ")— which was quickly dispatched to the battlefront, concentrating on the Caprivi Strip and South West Africa's border with Angola.

Jacaranda FM, previously known as Jacaranda 94. 2, is a commercial South African radio station, broadcasting in English and Afrikaans, with a toeprint that covers Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the North West Province and boasts an audience of more than 2 million.

Native English speakers ( white, Indian and Coloured or Cape Coloured ) in South Africa have an accent that generally resembles British Received Pronunciation ( modified with varying degrees of Germanic inflection due to Afrikaans ).

In real-world terms, Tolkien's inspiration for the word Arda may be certain cognates of the English word " Earth " in the other Germanic languages, specifically the Afrikaans " Aarde " which has equivalent pronunciation and meaning, and unsurprising in use given Tolkien's South African origins.

Former statement can be disputed because the language Afrikaans has its origins in the Dutch language, which implies that the origin of the word may well be directly Germanic in nature.

Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from Dutch and classified as Low Franconian Germanic, mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Angola, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Togo, and Zambia.

The word spar means " to save " in some Germanic ( among them German, Dutch and Afrikaans ) and Scandinavian languages.

All Germanic languages other than English have a name for Austria corresponding to Österreich: Afrikaans Oostenryk, Danish Østrig, Dutch Oostenrijk, Frisian Eastenryk, and Icelandic Austurríki.

Additionally, an alpha suffix ( a “ shredout ”) denotes positions associated with particular equipment or functions within a single specialty ( an Afrikaans specialist in the Germanic linguist field would have an " E " shredout ).

Using the above example, the AFSC X1N371E would refer to a Germanic Cryptologic Linguist who is aircrew qualified and specializes in Afrikaans.