Words similar to afrikaans

Example sentences for: afrikaans

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Furthermore, English is not the only colonial language of the territory, for since 1948 the ruling Afrikaner nationalists have promoted Afrikaans as an essential language for advancement in the public service.
The majority of Afrikaans items, however, are those which appear in written English sources, but rarely in colloquial South African English (even as spoken by Afrikaners).
It was created to meet an urgent need for a common language between those using the European-derived Afrikaans, English, German, or Portuguese on the one hand and, on the other, the speakers of the numerous African tongues from the Angoni in Malawi to the Zulus in Natal, all of whom worked together in the diamond diggings, gold mines, and farms of the whole of southern Africa, including Mozambique and what are now Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
Many of the Afrikaans words in DOSAE are similarly illustrated from examples involving bilingual word play by creative writers.
According to the Branfords' own calculations (made in 1988) the source languages for items in the DOSAE were 48 per cent Dutch/Afrikaans; 29 per cent English (i.e., neologisms); 11 per cent Bantu languages, and 12 per cent other.