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

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    Status of the language 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 ...

  3. Fanagalo - Wikipedia

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    Fanagalo, or Fanakalo, is a vernacular or pidgin based primarily on Zulu with input from English and a small amount of Afrikaans. [3] It is used as a lingua franca, mainly in the gold, diamond, coal and copper mining industries in South Africa and to a lesser extent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

  4. Language transfer - Wikipedia

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    Language transfer is the application of linguistic features from one language to another by a bilingual or multilingual speaker. Language transfer may occur across both languages in the acquisition of a simultaneous bilingual, from a mature speaker's first language (L1) to a second language (L2) they are acquiring, or from an L2 back to the L1. [1]

  5. Languages of Namibia - Wikipedia

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    Upon Namibian independence in 1990, English was enshrined as the nation's sole official language in the constitution of Namibia. German and Afrikaans were stigmatised as relics of the colonial past, [ 1 ] while the rising of Mandela's Youth League and the 1951 Defiance Campaign spread English among the masses as the language of the campaign ...

  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. Translation - Wikipedia

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    Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. [1] The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between translating (a written text) and interpreting (oral or signed communication between users of different languages ...

  8. Category:Translators to Afrikaans - Wikipedia

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  9. Comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch - Wikipedia

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    Afrikaans uses purisms or calques where Dutch would use loans from French, Latin or English. Owing to the exposure of Afrikaans speakers to English, Dutch words like computer, lift and appartement are more readily understood by them than Afrikaans equivalents like rekenaar, hysbak and woonstel are by Dutch speakers.

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