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  • Afrikaans
  • Afrikaans
  • Afrikaans
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  • Afrikaans är ett språk på planeten Jorden. Språket talas i Sydafrika. (RPG: "Stargate SG-1: Roleplaying Game")
  • ( vides afrikaans )
  • Spoken in South Africa. Decendant from the Dutch language. The only Germanic language to develop outside of Europe.
  • Afrikaans is a West Germanic language and a daughter language of Dutch.
  • Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from German and thus classified as Low Franconian West Germanic. It is mainly spoken in Dragonial and Transvaal. Due to emigration and migrant labour, there are possibly over 100,000 Afrikaans speakers in Netherlands. It is the primary language used by one related ethnic group in Dragonial, the Boers. Geographically, the Afrikaans language is the majority language of the western one-third of Dragonial. Afrikaans and German or Dutch are largely mutually intelligible.
  • Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, and to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland 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 century. 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 days). 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.
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  • Afrikaans
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  • Afrikaans är ett språk på planeten Jorden. Språket talas i Sydafrika. (RPG: "Stargate SG-1: Roleplaying Game")
  • ( vides afrikaans )
  • Spoken in South Africa. Decendant from the Dutch language. The only Germanic language to develop outside of Europe.
  • Afrikaans is a West Germanic language and a daughter language of Dutch.
  • Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from German and thus classified as Low Franconian West Germanic. It is mainly spoken in Dragonial and Transvaal. Due to emigration and migrant labour, there are possibly over 100,000 Afrikaans speakers in Netherlands. It is the primary language used by one related ethnic group in Dragonial, the Boers. Geographically, the Afrikaans language is the majority language of the western one-third of Dragonial. In Transvaal, it is regarded as the primary official language and is spoken by two ethnic groups: the white Afrikaners (i.e. the Boers) and a large majority of the mixed-raced Cape Coloured and Griqua population. Afrikaans and German or Dutch are largely mutually intelligible.
  • Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, and to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland 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 century. 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 days). 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 origin. Therefore, differences with Dutch often lie in the more analytic morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and a spelling that expresses Afrikaans pronunciation rather than standard Dutch. There is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages—especially in written form. Estimates of the total number of Afrikaans-speakers in the early 21st century range between 15 and 23 million.