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Afrikaners in Zimbabwe are the descendants of Afrikaans speaking migrants to Zimbabwe, almost all of whom originated from the Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal in modern South Africa. [2] At their peak they formed 10-15% of white Zimbabweans , but only a small fraction of the greater population.
Translation: a very long time ago, often used when the specific date isn't known. nogal – of all things. Term expressing a measure of surprise. nooit – lit. "never." No way, unbelievable! nou – lit. "Immediately/now". Also means "narrow". nou-net – lit. "just now". Refers to an event that happened within a few minutes ago.
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".
The Afrikaans language changed over time from the Dutch spoken by the first white settlers at the Cape. From the late 17th century, the form of Dutch spoken at the Cape developed differences, mostly in morphology but also in pronunciation and accent and, to a lesser extent, in syntax and vocabulary, from that of the Netherlands, although the ...
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.
Since 1996, the NALN has brought renewed focus to the works of black and Cape Coloured authors in Afrikaans and expanded its collection of same. In 1994, the NALN began campaigning for a literary museum for Sotho (along with Afrikaans, one of the country's 11 official languages). The museum was announced in 1999, and was opened in 2006 with the ...
The Afrikaans Wikipedia (Afrikaans: Afrikaanse Wikipedia) is an Afrikaans edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia. The project was started on 16 November 2001 and it was the 11th Wikipedia to be created. [ 1 ]
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.