Afrikaans
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afrikaans-184-9110648
title:
Afrikaans
text:
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland spoken by the predominantly Dutch settlers and enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages, including German and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of A
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
West Germanic language
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans
date created:
2001-10-04T12:54:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T07:17:46Z
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