Language/Afrikaans
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Facts about Afrikaans
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
afr
- Autonyms (how to write "Afrikaans" in Afrikaans):
Afrikaans
- The Afrikaans language is spoken in:
South Africa
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the European (Dutch, French and German) settlers and their slaves in South Africa, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the course of the 18th century.
It is considered to be a developed creole language. Afrikaans linguistics researchers maintain that Afrikaans, originally being a peasant language, is only partially creole.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans
Dictionaries
• The Englishman's guide to the speedy and easy acquirement of Cape Dutch: vocabulary by topics & translation of phrases, by Hubertus Elffers (1901)
• An English-Cape Dutch vocabulary for the use of Englishmen, by Joan Frederik van Oordt (1902) [PDF]
• A first English-Afrikaans vocabulary of Catholic terms by Oswin Magrath (1943) [PDF]