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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, All Wikipedia articles needing clarification, All articles lacking reliable references, Articles with permanently dead external links, Languages of Botswana
EN
Afrikaans  Taal  South African Dutch  Afrikaans language  Eastern Cape Afrikaans
EN
An official language of the Republic of South Africa; closely related to Dutch and Flemish WordNet 3.0
English:
language
Definitions
Relations
Sources
EN
An official language of the Republic of South Africa; closely related to Dutch and Flemish WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and people enslaved by them. Wikipedia
West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa and Namibia Wikidata
A West Germanic language spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia. OmegaWiki
A Germanic language descending from Dutch; the primary language of the descendants of Dutch and other European settlers, as well as many mixed-race (e.g. Rehoboth Basters) living in South Africa and in Namibia. Also, one of the eleven official languages of South Africa and until 1990 one of three official languages of Namibia. Wiktionary
Language. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
Dutch
dialect
language
modern language
Afrikaans
+1 relations
PART OF
Low Franconian
HAS KIND
Afrikaans
Cape Afrikaans
NL
Namibisch-Afrikaans
BASED ON
Dutch
COUNTRY
Botswana
Namibia
South Africa
DERIVATION
Afrikaans
DIALECT OF
Afrikaans
HISTORY OF TOPIC
AF
Geskiedenis van Afrikaans
INDIGENOUS TO
Botswana
South Africa
Ghanzi District
Southern District
Kgatleng District
+3 relations
LANGUAGE REGULATORY BODY
Die Taalkommissie
LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY
fusional language
subject–verb–object
subject–object–verb
V2 word order
stress-timed language
WRITING SYSTEM
roman
WordNet 3.0
EN
Afrikaans, Taal, South African Dutch
Open English WordNet
EN
Afrikaans, Taal, Taal language, Afrikaans language
Wikipedia
EN
Afrikaans
Wikidata
EN
Afrikaans, Eastern Cape Afrikaans, Northern Cape Afrikaans
Wiktionary
EN
Afrikaans
OmegaWiki
EN
Afrikaans
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
Africaans, African Dutch, Africkaans, Afrikaan, Afrikaans (Eastern Cape dialect), Afrikaans alphabet, Afrikaans dialects, Afrikaans language, Afrikans, Cape Afrikaans, Dialects of Afrikaans, Historical dialects of Afrikaans, History of Afrikaans, History of the Afrikaans language, Hottentot Dutch, Hottentot Dutch language, ISO 639-1:af, ISO 639:af, ISO 639:afr, Kaapse Afrikaans, Mutual intelligibility of Dutch and Afrikaans, Oosgrens-Afrikaans, Oosgrensafrikaans, Oranjerivier-Afrikaans, South African Dutch
Wikidata Alias
EN
af, afr, African language, Afrikaans language

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