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No. Afrikaners are Boers, South Africans of Dutch ancestry. Afrikaans is their language.
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What languages are spoken by Afrikaners?
By definition, Afrikaners speak Afrikaans.
How do you spell afrikans?
if you mean the language, it is spelled " Afrikaans" if you mean the people they are calle " Afrikaners"
What is the name for dutch south Africans?
"Boers" historically, but more recently "Afrikaners" or "Afrikaans-speaking South Africans". Afrikaans is similar to Dutch but a separate language and a culture in its own right.
How did the Afrikaners and Boer's feel about each other?
Well they are basically the same people, I should know, because I am an Afrikaner (I'm white, from European descent, and I speak Afrikaans) my uncle is a Boer(Also white, also from European descent and also speaks Afrikaans) and we carry the same surname(last name). "Boer" means farmer in Afrikaans/Dutch. So if you are like me and you farm, you would call yourself a Boer, if you don't farm and live in the city, you would call yourself an Afrikaner. But it's very common for us that don't farm to also call ourselves Boers, and for the farmers to call themselves Afrikaners. THERE IS ACTUALLY NO DIFFERENCE. Both names refer to people from European descent(mostly Dutch, but also French and German) living in Southern Africa, and speaking the Afrikaans language(derived from Dutch but also influenced by French, German and indigenous languages) Hope this helps. 20-12-2010
Does the term afrikaners refer to descendants of dutch settlers in south Africa?
Afrikaners are those speaking the Afrikaans language that evolved from Dutch. Whilst most Afrikaners are descended from the Dutch, there are many whose descent can be traced to other European countries, including Germany, France and even Italy.
What language does Afrikaans come from?
Afrikaans is actually a language and not a group of people. The group of people speaking Afrikaans are called Afrikaners. Afrikaans is based on Dutch, which was spoken by the Dutch settlers (once known as "Boers" -- which means "farmers" in Afrikaans -- who lived in South Africa. Afrikaans was initially known as "Kitchen Dutch." Which means that the Afrikaners come from the Continent of Europe.
What does afrikaner mean?
Afrikaners, formerly known as Boers, South African cultural group descended from Europeans. Afrikaners speak Afrikaans as their native language. Afrikaner language, customs, and religion were shaped by more than three centuries of harsh frontier life.
What has the author Abel Coetzee written?
Abel Coetzee has written: 'Die Afrikaanse volkskultuur' -- subject(s): Afrikaners, Folklore 'African-English, English-African dictionary' -- subject(s): Afrikaans, Afrikaans language, Dictionaries, English, English language
In what country is Afrikaans spoken?
The afrikaners. White South Africans. But it is also spoken as by the coloured (not black) communities and as a second or third language by many black south africans
What is the profile of people visiting the Taalmonument in Paarl?
Since this monument commemorates the establishment of Afrikaans as an independent language it will mainly draw visitors who have Afrikaans as their first language. That would be the white Afrikaners who make up about 60% of South Africa's whites, and the so-called "Coloreds", people of mixed race, a majority of whom are Afrikaans-speaking.
What is the history of early South Africa?
To find out about early south Africa you will want to "Google" "Afrikaners". Afrikaners is the name that some early European settlers that were born in South Africa called themselves. Early South Africa were populated by the Koisan, and Bushmen that inhabited mostly the coastal areas of Southern Africa. The early black tribes migrated from West East and Northern Africa towards the south of Africa in search of better grazing for their cattle . It is a fact that the white "afrikaners" preserved many ancient artifacts in museums dating back thousands of year Afrikaners is not the name of the European settlers, but the offspring of these German Settlers, French Hugenots,and British settlers,- and from them stemmed the name Afrikaners. Voortrekkers were Afrikaner white people born in South Africa, who trekked inland to escape the conditions of oppresion by the British Colonial forces at the Cape of Good Hope and her Colonies, which eventually resulted in war between the Afrikaans speaking Voortrekkers, "Boers" (which means "Farmer" in the Afrikaans language) - Afrikaans is in actual fact the Name of the language the Koisan tribes and Boers started speaking to communicate, which originated from the Dutch language, this name of the language only came for recognition in the late fifties and sixties, when Afrikaners fought for its recognition, Afrikaners being some of the white minority in South Africa. Since early years we were all called South Africans - it is only the conservative Afrikaans speaking South Africans that call themselves Afrikaners.
What is the difference between Afrikaans and Afrikaner?
Afrikaans is a language predominantly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, while Afrikaner refers to a cultural group of mainly Dutch, German and French settlers in South Africa. Afrikaans is one of the languages spoken by the Afrikaner community.
