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  2. List of countries and territories where Afrikaans or Dutch ...

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    Western Cape (Afrikaans: Wes-Kaap) Province: Afrikaans is a co-official language, together with English and Xhosa [citation needed] City of Cape Town (Afrikaans: Stad Kaapstad) municipality: Afrikaans is a co-official language, together with English and Xhosa. Afrikaans is the mother tongue of half of the population [citation needed]

  3. Radio Sonder Grense - Wikipedia

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    Radio Sonder Grense (RSG), i.e. Radio Without Borders, is an Afrikaans-language radio service run by the South African Broadcasting Corporation for the whole of South Africa. Since Afrikaans is one of South Africa's 11 official languages, the SABC is required to carry an Afrikaans-language service on both radio and television.

  4. Afrikaners - Wikipedia

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    Today, Afrikaans is recognised as one of the eleven official languages of South Africa, and is the third most common first language in South Africa. In June 2013, the Department of Basic Education included Afrikaans as an African language to be compulsory for all pupils.

  5. List of Afrikaans-language radio stations - Wikipedia

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    NBC Namibian Broadcasting Corporation, one Afrikaans-language station Skatkis Stereo, online web radio, Afrikaans sprekende omroepers Commercial South African Stations

  6. Afrikaans - Wikipedia

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    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".

  7. Afrikaans phonology - Wikipedia

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    /a/ is open near-front , [12] but older sources describe it as near-open central [13] [14] and open central . [15] /ɑː/ is either open near-back or open back . Especially in stressed positions, the back realization may be rounded , and sometimes it may be even as high as the /ɔː/ phoneme. The rounded realization is associated with younger ...

  8. Afrikaans grammar - Wikipedia

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    Word order in Afrikaans follows broadly the same rules as in Dutch: in main clauses, the finite verb appears in "second position" (V2 word order), while subordinate clauses (e.g. content clauses and relative clauses) have subject–object–verb order, with the verb at (or near) the end of the clause.

  9. Jacaranda FM - Wikipedia

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    South Africa portal; Jacaranda FM, previously known as Jacaranda 94.2, is a South African radio station, broadcasting in English and Afrikaans, with a footprint that covers Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the North West Province and boasts a listening audience of 2 million people a week and a digital community of more than 1.1 million people a month.