Afrikaans Language
Afrikaans (UK: , US: ) is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the Dutch settlers in South Africa, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the course of the 18th century. Hence, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and the youngest of the Germanic languages as well as one of the youngest languages in general. Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages, including German and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to …
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World Bank Group · 10 January 2024 English
audience: (Note: English responses, below Afrikaans language responses) Comments/questions Response …
UN: The United Nations · 13 December 2023 English
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a practising lawyer and a member of the Afrikaans language community. He also notes that section 6 of … non-English language communities, such as the Afrikaans language community, of which the author is a member …
South African Human Right Commission · 14 March 2023 English
alleged general approach to language and the Afrikaans language and culture more broadly at SU. These submissions … while they hold no ill-will against the Afrikaans language and its speakers, they hold the view that …
UN: The United Nations · 1 September 2022 English
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rioting and looting.(5) Minority heritage and Afrikaans language have also been targeted over recent years … the word “Afrikaans” from the name of the Afrikaans Language Monument and Museum in Paarl.(6) This is …
KKI: Külügyi és Külgazdasági Intézet · 2022 English
communications with the authorities in the Afrikaans language, even when they are perfectly capable of …
HSF: Helen Suzman Foundation · 2 December 2021 English
This inevitably entails redressing the injustices of the past.17 [45] In his oral submissions, counsel for the amicus inter alia referred this Court to the judgment of the Equality Court …
knew that due to the predominance of the Afrikaans language spoken in Petrusburg, an interpreter would …
HSF: Helen Suzman Foundation · 2 December 2021 English
This inevitably entails redressing the injustices of the past.17 [45] In his oral submissions, counsel for the amicus inter alia referred this Court to the judgment of the Equality Court …
knew that due to the predominance of the Afrikaans language spoken in Petrusburg, an interpreter would …
Salzburg Global Seminar · 3 February 2021 English
Human beings need to gather, to celebrate, they need their spirits to soar, to witness artistic genius, to feel chills and goosebumps run down their spines, to revel in the …
Kunstefees/Arts Festival/Tsa-Botjhaba, a multi-artform Afrikaans language festival in Mangaung, South Africa, that …
KKI: Külügyi és Külgazdasági Intézet · 2021 English
communications with the authorities in the Afrikaans language, even when they are perfectly capable of …
SBG: Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia · 9 September 2020 English
Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession—and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We …
significant Die Brandkluis [The Safe] 1970 Afrikaans-language TV programs on science program science made …
