Words similar to afrikaans
Example sentences for: afrikaans
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That was where I learned to speak Afrikaans She is heel-temal tweetalig [totally bilingual] and ... studied art in Scotland.
Incidentally, dunk is not proper German, Dutch, or even Afrikaans for `dip,' and to the best of my knowledge would not even be understood as slang in German or Afrikaans.
The high proportion of Afrikaans words has frequently been singled out for comment by critics.
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.