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Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]
The institute has adopted official names in South Africa's other official languages, namely (Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Vertalersinstituut, SAVI, Zulu: INhlangano yaBahumushi yaseNingizimu Afrika, Xhosa: Umbutho wabaGuquli wazeMzantsi Afrika, Sotho: Mokgatlo wa Bafetoledi wa Afrika Borwa, Northern Sotho: Sehlongwa sa Bafetoledi sa Afrika Borwa ...
Derived from the English word "lorry" with an identical meaning, the term gained popularity after the British colonized South Africa. Though "trok" (the proper Afrikaans translation for "truck") is still in use, it has been heavily replaced with the slang term "lorrie".
The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word Afrikaansch (now spelled Afrikaans) [n 3] meaning 'African'. [12] It was previously referred to as 'Cape Dutch' (Kaap-Hollands or Kaap-Nederlands), a term also used to refer to the early Cape settlers collectively, or the derogatory 'kitchen Dutch' (kombuistaal) from its use by slaves of colonial settlers "in the kitchen".
DeepL Translator is a neural machine translation service that was launched in August 2017 and is owned by Cologne-based DeepL SE. The translating system was first developed within Linguee and launched as entity DeepL .
Google Translate previously first translated the source language into English and then translated the English into the target language rather than translating directly from one language to another. [11] A July 2019 study in Annals of Internal Medicine found that "Google Translate is a viable, accurate tool for translating non–English-language ...
Afrikaans: Hy het 'n huis gekoop. Dutch: Hij heeft een huis gekocht. English: He (has) bought a house. Relative clauses usually begin with the pronoun "wat", used both for personal and non-personal antecedents. For example, Afrikaans: Die man wat hier gebly het was ʼn Amerikaner. Dutch: De man die hier bleef was een Amerikaan.
Words of Afrikaans origin have entered other languages.British English has absorbed Afrikaans words primarily via British soldiers who served in the Boer Wars.Many more words have entered common usage in South African English due to the parallel nature of the English and Afrikaner cultures in South Africa.