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See afrikaans

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˌɑːfrɪˈkɑːnz/


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. Rehoboth Baster) 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.
  2. A term sometimes used of people from South Africa and Namibia (who speak Afrikaans), more properly called "Afrikaans people" or Afrikaners.


Synonyms


Translations

  • Catalan:
  • Croatian: {{t-|hr|afrikaans|m}}
  • Danish:
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|Afrikaans|n}}
  • Estonian: afrikaani keel
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|afrikaans|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Afrikaans|n}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|αφρικάανς|n|tr=afrikáans|sc=Grek}}
  • Irish: Afracáinis
  • Italian:
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|アフリカーンス語|tr=afurikānsu-go|sc=Jpan}}
  • Korean: 아프리칸스어 (apeurikanseu-eo)
  • Norwegian:
  • Polish:
  • Portuguese: africâner (Brazil), africanês (Portugal)
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|африкаанс|m|sc=Cyrl}} (afrikáans)
  • Slovene: ,
  • Spanish:
  • Swedish:
  • Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|tiếng Afrikaans|xs=Vietnamese}}
  • West Frisian: {{t+|fy|Afrikaansk|n|xs=West Frisian}}
  • Dutch: {{t-|nl|Afrikaner|m}}, {{t|nl|Zuid-Afrikaan|m}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|Afrikaans|m|f}}
  • German: {{t-|de|Afrikander|m}}

Adjective

Afrikaans

  1. Of or pertaining to the Afrikaans language.


Translations

  • Dutch:
  • Finnish: {{t+|fi|afrikaans|alt=afrikaansin}}

See also


Category:Languages Category:Nationalities

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Afrikaans

  1. The #English|Afrikaans language.


Category:Afrikaans language|* Category:Afrikaans proper nouns

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Dutch

Etymology

From Afrika, ‘Africa’ + -aans.

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Nl-Afrikaans.ogg
  • IPA: /ɑfrikans/


Adjective

  1. African


Proper noun

Afrikaans

  1. #English|Afrikaans


Usage notes

Because "Afrikaans" is ambiguously "African" as well as referring to the language, Zuid-Afrikaans is often used instead.

Synonyms


Related terms


Category:Dutch proper nouns Category:nl:Languages

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WordNet Afrikaans
adj : belonging or relating to white people of South Africa whose
ancestors were Dutch or to their language; "an
Afrikaans couple"; "Afrikaner support" [syn: Afrikaner]
n : an official language of the Republic of South Africa;
closely related to Dutch and Flemish [syn: Taal, {the
Taal}, South African Dutch]
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