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Afrikaans can claim the same literary roots as contemporary Dutch, as both languages stem from 17th-century Dutch. One of the oldest examples of written Cape Dutch is the poem Lied ter eere van de Swellendamsche en diverse andere helden bij de bloedige actie aan Muizenberg in dato 7 August 1795 (Song in Honour of the Swellendam and various others Heroes at the Bloody Action at Muizenberg) [3 ...
The Taalkommissie ("Language Commission") is a subsidiary of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns ("South African Academy for Science and Arts") that serves as the technical committee of the Nasionale Taalliggaam vir Afrikaans ("National Language Body for Afrikaans"), which is the language regulator of the Afrikaans language.
Afrikaans, unlike Dutch, has no unmarked or marked forms of pronouns; whereas Dutch distinguishes between je/jij and ze/zij for "you" (singular) and "she" as subject pronouns, Afrikaans uses only jy and sy, while whereas me/mij and je/jou are the Dutch unmarked or marked forms of object pronouns for "me" and "you", Afrikaans only uses my and jou.
The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word Afrikaansch (now spelled Afrikaans) [n 4] 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".
Grade R: 6–7 Grade 1: 7–8 Grade 2: 8–9 Grade 3: Intermediate Phase 9–10 Grade 4: 10–11 Grade 5: 11–12 Grade 6: Senior Phase (Lower secondary) 12–13 Grade 7: 13–14 Grade 8: 14–15 Grade 9: Further Education and Training Phase (Upper Secondary) 15–16 Grade 10 16–17 Grade 11 17–18 Grade 12. Grade 13
Norms provided for the 1978 edition include standard scores with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, percentile scores, and grade levels. The standard scores are scaled based on the norm group; the grade levels are arbitrarily assigned and can be interpreted only as rough references to achievement level.
Jaco Jacobs (born 1980) is a South African children's author who writes in Afrikaans. Jacobs was born in the South African town of Carnarvon , Northern Cape. He started writing at a young age and sold his first short stories to magazines while still in high school. [ 1 ]
In South Africa, the grading system used in secondary schools until 2008 (when the education minister implemented Outcomes Based Education or OBE curriculum) was as follows: