Words similar to afrikaans

Example sentences for: afrikaans

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The authors themselves mention that some Afrikaans critics of earlier editions of this text felt that many entries were not really South African English.
There is certainly a need for words of Afrikaans origin that recur in English texts (often for local color effect) to be glossed somewhere: a reference work like the DOSAE might be more convenient for readers than an Afrikaans or Xhosa or some other dictionary.
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.
The high proportion of Afrikaans words has frequently been singled out for comment by critics.
Many of the Afrikaans words in DOSAE are similarly illustrated from examples involving bilingual word play by creative writers.