Words similar to afrikaans

Example sentences for: afrikaans

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Slegs is one of the relatively few items marked in the DOSAE as Afrikaans, rather than English.
Many of the Afrikaans words in DOSAE are similarly illustrated from examples involving bilingual word play by creative writers.
Other uncontroversial Afrikaans items include political and culinary terms widely used in South Africa, e.g., apartheid and biltong strips of sun-dried lean meat.
The authors themselves mention that some Afrikaans critics of earlier editions of this text felt that many entries were not really South African English.
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).