Afrikaans

Etymology
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Pronunciation




Proper noun

 * 1) A Germanic language descending from Dutch; the primary language of the descendants of Dutch and other European settlers, as well as many mixed-race (e.g. ) living in South Africa and in Namibia. Also, one of the eleven official languages of South Africa and until 1990 one of three official languages of Namibia.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: አፍሪካንኛ, አፍሪካንስ
 * Arabic: لُغَة أَفْرِيكَانِيَّة
 * Aragonese:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: Afrikaans
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: афрыкаанс
 * Bengali: আফ্রিকান্স ভাষা
 * Breton: afrikaneg
 * Bulgarian: африканс
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , 斐語, 阿非利卡語
 * Cornish: Afrikaans
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Dutch Low Saxon:
 * Esperanto: afrikansa, afrikansa lingvo
 * Estonian:, buuri keel
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: აფრიკაანსი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati:
 * Hebrew:
 * Herero: Otjiafrikaansa
 * Hindi:, अफ़्रीकान्स भाषा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, afríkaans
 * Ido: linguo Afrikaansa, Afrikaansa
 * Indonesian:, Afrikans
 * Interlingua: afrikaans
 * Irish: Afracáinis
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kashubian: afrikanersczi jãzëk
 * Kazakh: африкаанс тілі, бур тілі
 * Khmer: ភាសាអាហ្វ្រីក
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: африкаанс тили, бур тили
 * Latvian: afrikānss, afrikandu valoda, būru valoda
 * Ligurian: lèngoa afrikaans
 * Limburgish: ,
 * Lingala: liafríkánsi
 * Lithuanian:, , afrikanerių kalba, būrų kalba
 * Luxembourgish: Afrikanesch
 * Malagasy: fiteny afrikaans
 * Malay: bahasa Afrikaans, Afrikaans
 * Malayalam: ആഫ്രിക്കാൻസ്
 * Maltese: L-Afrikan
 * Marathi: आफ्रिकान्स
 * Moksha: африканеронь, африкандеронь, буронь
 * Mongolian: африк хэл
 * Nahuatl:, africatlahtōlli, africatlahtolli
 * Navajo: Tsinaabąąs Dineʼé bizaad
 * Nepali:
 * Northern Sami: afrikánsagiella
 * Northern Sotho: Seafrikanse
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:, آفریکانز, زبان آفریکانس, زبان آفریکانز
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian: afrėkanu kalba, afrėkanū ruoda
 * Saterland Frisian: Afrikoansk
 * Scots: Afrikaans
 * Scottish Gaelic: Afragàns
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: африканс, африкански
 * Roman: afrikans,, afrikanski jezik
 * Sicilian:
 * Silesian: godka afrikaans
 * Slovak: afrikánčina
 * Slovene: afrikaans, afrikanščina
 * Somali: af Afrikaanays
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: afrikaans
 * Sotho: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Kiafrikaans, Kiafrikana
 * Swazi: siBhunu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai: ภาษาแอฟริคานส์
 * Tigrinya: አፍሪቃንሰኛ
 * Tongan: lea faka-Afrika
 * Tswana: Seburu
 * Turkish:, , Afrikaner
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: afrikanšćina
 * Urdu: ایفریکان, افریکان, ایفریکانس, ایفریکانز
 * Venetian: afrikaans
 * Vietnamese:, tiếng Afrikaans, tiếng Hà Lan ở Kếp, tiếng Nam Phi
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Xhosa: isiBhulu, isiAfrikansi
 * Yiddish: אַפֿריקאַנס
 * Zulu: isAfrikansi, isiBhunu

Noun

 * 1) A person from South Africa or Namibia who speaks Afrikaans.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Azerbaijani:, Afrikaans
 * Breton: ,
 * Georgian: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Macedonian:, ,
 * Maltese: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Swahili:, ,
 * Tamil:, ,
 * Tatar:, , ,
 * Thai:, , ,
 * Ukrainian:, ,
 * Welsh: ,

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to the.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , 斐語
 * Czech: afrikánský
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: afrikaansin kielinen
 * Irish: Afracáinise
 * Malay: bahasa Afrikaans, Afrikaans
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: afrikánsky

Etymology
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Adjective

 * , relating to Afrikaans
 * 1) African, relating to Africans

Proper noun

 * 1) the  language.

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) African; of, from or pertaining to Africa
 * 2) ; of, from or pertaining to the Afrikaans language

Usage notes
Because Afrikaans can ambiguously mean “African” as well as referring to the language, is often used instead; though this is often considered erroneous by experts on Afrikaans.

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1) Afrikaans language

Usage notes

 * The word can be used with or without a definite article: (Das) Afrikaans ist eine germanische Sprache. (“Afrikaans is a Germanic language.”) The form with no article is generally more common, but the article is necessary in the genitive case (die Grammatik des Afrikaans) and with the preposition (die Pluralbildung im Afrikaans).

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