Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent in Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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 ").

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

Additionally, English is moderately analytic ( probably one of the most analytic of Indo-European languages, whilst Afrikaans can be considered as the most analytic of all Indo-European languages ).

Its name means " earth wolf " in the Afrikaans / Dutch language.

The latter two meanings also apply for the Afrikaans language, spoken in Southern Africa, which originated from Old Dutch amongst others.

The Boers spoke Afrikaans, a language or dialect derived from Dutch, and no longer called themselves Boers but Afrikaner.

He worked as a teacher in many rural schools and soon started to publish in both Dutch and the newly emerging Afrikaans language.

* 1925 – The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language.

About 60 % of the whites speak Afrikaans ( a language derived from the 17th century Dutch ), 32 % speak German, and 7 % speak English.

" Petty apartheid ": sign on Durban beach in English, Afrikaans and Zulu language s

As an entrenched clause in the Constitution originally, Dutch was an official language alongside English, but it was de facto replaced by Afrikaans in 1926 whilst officially Dutch and Afrikaans co-existed legally until the 1960s.

Known as Oorlams, these Khoisan adopted Boer customs and spoke a language similar to Afrikaans.

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.

They spoke their own, indigenous language, called Afrikaans, and were bound together by a form of Calvinist religion.

Afrikaans originated from the Dutch language.

Afrikaans was considered a Dutch dialect until the late 19th century, when it began to be recognised as a distinct language, and it gained equal status with Dutch and English as an official language in South Africa in 1925.

Dutch remained an official language until the new 1961 constitution finally stipulated the two official languages in South Africa to be Afrikaans and English ( although, curiously, the 1961 constitution still had a sub-clause stipulating that the word " Afrikaans " was also meant to be referring to the Dutch language ).

In various languages, its equivalent is the only word for both animal and apparatus, such as Esel in Afrikaans and earlier ezel in Dutch ( the easel generally in full schildersezel, ' painter's donkey '), themselves derived from Latin Asinus ( hence ass ).

The Sesotho word is a locative derived from the Afrikaans goud ( gold ) plus the locative suffix "- ng.

Ratel is an Afrikaans word, possibly derived from the Middle Dutch word for rattle, honeycomb ( either because of its cry or its taste for honey ).

The word " white " in the name " white rhinoceros " is a misinterpretation of the Afrikaans word wyd, itself derived from the Dutch word wijd for wide, referring to its square upper lip, as opposed to the pointed or hooked lip of the black rhinoceros.

Paarl (; Afrikaans: ; derived from Parel, meaning Pearl in Dutch ) is a town with 191, 013 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Afrikaans has almost identical usage and grammar for diminutive words as Dutch, the language Afrikaans was derived from.

A cantus ( Latin for ' singing ', derived from ' cantare '), is an activity organised by Belgian, Dutch, French, Baltic and Afrikaans student organisations and fraternities.

Kloofing is derived from an Afrikaans word ' kloof ', meaning ' gorge ' or ' ravine '.

The name is derived from two Afrikaans words, namely " kalk " meaning limestone and " kop " meaning head.

In the Dutch language a kraal is a term derived from the Portuguese word ,< ref > Random House Unabridged Dictionary: Kraal: " Origin: 1725 – 35 ; < Afrikaans < Portuguese curral pen "</ ref > cognate with the Spanish-language, which entered into English separately.

Others claim the name is derived from the Dutch " struisvogel "/ Afrikaans " volstruis "-which translates as ostrich in English, apparently many of the local farmers kept these birds on their farms.

Its name is derived from Afrikaans meaning " Crooked Turn " after a kink in the meandering Crocodile River.

The name Naboomspruit is Afrikaans but derived from Khoekhoen ; ‘ euphorbia tree stream ’, after the Euphorbia ingens which grows there.

The term derived from the Afrikaans word trek ( noun ), trekken ( verb ), ( literally meaning to " pull, travel "), became a word in English language in mid 19th century, and means a long arduous journey, typically on foot.

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