Afrikaans
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Af·ri·kaans
(ăf'rĭ-käns', -känz') 
n.
A language that developed from 17th-century Dutch and is an official language of South Africa. Also called Taal.
adj.
Of or relating to Afrikaans or Afrikaners.
n.
A language that developed from 17th-century Dutch and is an official language of South Africa. Also called Taal.
adj.
Of or relating to Afrikaans or Afrikaners.
[Afrikaans, from Dutch Afrikaansch, African, from Latin Āfricānus. See Afrikaner.]
Afrikaans (ăf'rəkäns'), member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Although its classification is still disputed, it is generally considered an independent language rather than a dialect or variant of Dutch (see Dutch language). Afrikaans is spoken by close to 8 million people in the Republic of South Africa, where it is an official language, and by about 1.5 million people in Namibia, where it is the common language of most of the population. At least half of its native speakers in South Africa are not white. It arose from the Dutch spoken by the Boers, who emigrated from the Netherlands to South Africa in the 17th cent., but in its written form it dates only from 1861. The grammar has been considerably simplified. Its vocabulary is essentially similar to that of Dutch; Afrikaans has absorbed quite a few words from the Khoisan languages, Bantu (such as words designating local flora and fauna), and English.
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Afrikaans
IN BRIEF: n. - An official language of a country in a southern continent adj. - Belonging or relating to white people of a country in a southern continent whose ancestors were Dutch or to their language.
Tutor's tip: Many "Africans" (inhabitants or Africa) speak "Afrikaans" (a South African language).
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Afrikaans
Dansk (Danish)
n. - afrikaans, boersprog
adj. - afrikaans, boer-
Nederlands (Dutch)
Afrikaans (taal)
Français (French)
n. - Afrikaans, (Ling) afrikaans
adj. - afrikaans
Deutsch (German)
n. - Afrikaans
adj. - afrikaanisch
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αφρικανο-ολλανδική (γλώσσα)
Português (Portuguese)
n. - africâner (m)
Русский (Russian)
африкаанс, бурский язык
Español (Spanish)
n. - afrikaans
adj. - afrikaans
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - afrikans
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
公用荷兰语, 南非洲的荷兰语, 使用南非荷兰语的, 南非白人的
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 公用荷蘭語, 南非洲的荷蘭語
adj. - 使用南非荷蘭語的, 南非白人的
한국어 (Korean)
n. - (남아프리카의)표준 네덜란드말
adj. - 표준 네덜란드말의
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) لغه طورت من ألألمانيه تستعمل في شمال أفريقيا
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - אפריקנית - שפה שהתפתחה מהולנדית, מדוברת בדרום-אפריקה, אפריקנס (שפה)
adj. - של אפריקנס או האפריקנרים
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