List of English words of Afrikaans origin information
Words of Afrikaans origin have entered other languages. British English has absorbed Afrikaans words primarily via British soldiers who served in the Boer Wars. Many more words have entered common usage in South African English due to the parallel nature of the English and Afrikaner cultures in South Africa. Afrikaans words have unusual spelling patterns.
Most of these words describe the African flora, fauna or landscape.
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to 95% ofAfrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin, so there are few lexical differences between the two languages, however Afrikaans has considerably...
early period of Modern English to follow the spelling patterns of Latin for Englishwordsof Germanic origin. For the vowel sounds of the English language...
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portal List of EnglishwordsofAfrikaansorigin South African English Australian English New Zealand English British diaspora in Africa English in southern...
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(Afrikaans, English, German) and are used as lingua francas in Liberia and the former colonies of the United Kingdom (English), former colonies of France...
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