Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans /ˌæfrᵻˈkɑːnᵗs/, /ˌɑː-/, or /-ˈkɑːnz/56 is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, and to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe It evolved from the Dutch vernacular78 of South Holland Hollandic dialect910 spoken by the mainly Dutch settlers of what is now South Africa, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the course of the 18th century11 Hence, 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 derogatory term used to refer to Afrikaans in its earlier daysn 1 The term is ultimately derived from Dutch "Afrikaans-Hollands" meaning "African Dutch" It is the first language of most of the Afrikaner and Coloured people of Southern Africa
Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages, including Portuguese, the Bantu languages, Malay, German and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of Afrikaans vocabulary is of Dutch originn 2 Therefore, differences with Dutch often lie in theafrikaans to english, afrikaans, afrikaans dictionary, afrikaans movies, afrikaans translator, afrikaans music Afrikaans