AFRIKAANS

ăfˌrəkänsˈ, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Although its classification is still disputed, it is generally considered an independent language rather than a dialect or variant of Dutch (see Dutch language). Afrikaans is spoken by close to 8 million people in the Republic of South Africa, where it is an official language, and by about 1.5 million people in Namibia, where it is the common language of most of the population. At least half of its native speakers in South Africa are not white. It arose from the Dutch spoken by the Boers, who emigrated from the Netherlands to South Africa in the 17th cent., but in its written form it dates only from 1861. The grammar has been considerably simplified. Its vocabulary is essentially similar to that of Dutch; Afrikaans has absorbed quite a few words from the Khoisan languages, Bantu (such as words designating local flora and fauna), and English.

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books on: Afrikaans  - 1093 results

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Colonization, Violence, and Narration in White South African Writing: Andre Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J.M. Coetzee
Book by Rosemary Jane Jolly; Ohio University Press, 1996
Subjects: Afrikaans Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Breytenbach, Breyten--Criticism And Interpretation, Brink, Andrae Philippus--1935---Ambassadeur--English, Coetzee, J. M.--1940---Criticism And Interpretation, South African Fiction (English)--History And Criticism, Violence In Literature
...writes his novels in both English and Afrikaans, and insists that the English is not merely a translation of the Afrikaans: It started with Kennis van die Aand...Subsequently Brink has used both English and Afrikaans to write his novels. He explains...
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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Vol. 1
Book by Keith Brown, Anne H. Anderson, Laurie Bauer, Margie Berns, Graeme Hirst, Jim Miller; Elsevier, 2006
Subjects: Language And Languages--Encyclopedias, Linguistics--Encyclopedias
Afrikaans T Biberauer, Newnham College, Cambridge...All rights reserved. Introduction Afrikaans is the youngest fully standardized member...language family. A daughter of Dutch (Afrikaans= the Dutch adjective meaning African...
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The Boers in East Africa: Ethnicity and Identity
Book by Brian M. Du Toit; Bergin & Garvey, 1998
Subjects: Afrikaners--Africa, East--Ethnic Identity--History, Afrikaners--Africa, East--History
...abolished altogether and to concentrate on Afrikaans. . . . Pupils have the option here from...would not allow their children to take Afrikaans. "I should like to see both subjects...2259 Ref. 291/33 . But the issue of Afrikaans in schools did not go away. In 1948...
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International Handbook of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
Book by Christina Bratt Paulston; Greenwood Press, 1988
Subjects: Bilingualism, Education, Bilingual
Afrikaans in the Coloured Community The Coloureds use of Afrikaans, which for many is traditionally a mother tongue...characterized by frequent code- switching between Afrikaans and English, with a rich variety of dialects. The...
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Voices of Conflict: Desegregating South African Universities
Book by Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela; Falmer Press, 2000
Subjects: Discrimination In Higher Education--South Africa, School Integration--South Africa
...have to consider we also have lots of Afrikaans people studying here. UCT in Cape Town...arrangement? Dont completely eradicate Afrikaans and say that it is the language of the...say, Ja, we dont want to be taught in Afrikaans. But if you go some places in Cape Town...
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journal articles on: Afrikaans  - 357 results

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Oedipus and Afrikaans Theater
Journal article by Betine Van Zyl Smit; Comparative Drama, Vol. 44, 2010
Subjects: Afrikaans language--Translations and translating, Classical theater--Translations and translating, Dramatists--Works, Fugard, Athol--Works, Greek drama (Tragedy), Greek tragedy, Playwrights--Works, Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus (Play)--Translations and translating, South African drama, South African drama (English), Translators (Persons)--Works, Wassenaar, Theo--Works, du Plessis, L.J. Wicus--Works
Oedipus and Afrikaans Theater. by Betine Van Zyl Smit Since...shall first investigate two different Afrikaans translations of the tragedy made in...twentieth-century South Africa--the Afrikaans actor Andre Huguenet (1906-61...
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"Rocking the Boat" in South Africa? Voëlvry Music and Afrikaans Anti-apartheid Social Protest in the 1980s
Journal article by Albert Grundlingh; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 37, 2004
Subjects: African history, Apartheid, Blacks, Ethnic music
...in South Africa? Voelvry Music and Afrikaans Anti-apartheid Social Protest in the...self-evident.3 In a similar vein Afrikaans anti-apartheid social protest music...political outlook between the followers of Afrikaans counterculture and what he considered...
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Postcolonialism and Recent Women's Writing in Afrikaans
Journal article by Louise Viljoen; World Literature Today, Vol. 70, 1996
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
Afrikaans women writers can play an important role...context. Andre Brink maintains that Afrikaans women writers have already shown the...however, that the category of mainstream Afrikaans woman writer does not as yet include...
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HIV and AIDS: Are All Women Equally at Risk? Afrikaans Speaking Married Women's Perceptions of Self-Risk
Journal article by Ria Smit; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 39, 2008
Subjects: HIV seroprevalence--Analysis, HIV seroprevalence--Demographic aspects, HIV seroprevalence--Social aspects, Health risk assessment--Evaluation, Married women--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Married women--Health aspects, Married women--Social aspects, Women's health--Evaluation, Women--Evaluation, Women--Health aspects
...AIDS: Are All Women Equally at Risk? Afrikaans Speaking Married Womens Perceptions of...this study fell in particular on white Afrikaans speaking married women as an under...recognising at the same time that white Afrikaans speaking married women as a group may...
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The Translation of the Nepsy-ii to Afrikaans, Some Ethical Reflections
Journal article by Knut Dalen, Finn Jellestad, Kamal Kamaloodien; Cognitie, Creier, Comportament / Cognition, Brain, Behavior, Vol. 11, 2007
The Translation of the Nepsy-ii to Afrikaans, Some Ethical Reflections by Knut Dalen...The need to translate the NEPSY-II to Afrikaans became apparent when we embarked on a...test batteries available for children in Afrikaans. It was therefore necessary to select...
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magazine articles on: Afrikaans  - 203 results

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The Call of Afrikaans
Magazine article by Charlie Hill; New Statesman, Vol. 136, November 12, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Way of the Women (Book)--Book reviews
The Call of Afrikaans. by Charlie Hill The Way of the Women...The same has frequently been said of Afrikaans. But such fatalism is not for van Niekerk. The Way of the Women was written in Afrikaans. Some vocabulary remains untranslated...
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What You're Missing: So Why Does Translation Matter? Here Are Two Reasons Why: Unpublished Translations from a Young South African Essayist and a Renowned Indian Novelist. Our Translation Project, with Many More Entries Online, Takes You from Vietnam's Version of the Agent Orange Disaster to an Inside Look at Russian Refugees in Germany-Stories You Won't Read Anywhere Else, at Least Not in English
Magazine article by Thomas Dreyer; Foreign Policy, May-June 2010
Subjects: Afrikaans language--Appreciation, Afrikaans language--Social aspects
...Not Our Leguaan, translated by Dreyer from the Afrikaans. I AM AN AFRIKAANS WRITER. I write in a language that is Dutch but...and "wildebeest"--these are the words that Afrikaans has given to the world. As is "trek," of course...
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The Bitter Legacy of the Boer War
Magazine article by Albert Grundlingh; History Today, Vol. 49, November 1999
Subjects: Afrikaners--Political activity, South African War, 1899-1902--History
...Boer colonisation, to pride of place in Afrikaans historical writing and nationalist consciousness...process, and further impeded by a fragile Afrikaans literary culture which had yet to develop...was only with the vigorous promotion of Afrikaans as a standard, respectable written language...
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Bond of Broeders: Anton Hartman and Music in an Apartheid State
Magazine article by Chris Walton; Musical Times, Vol. 145, Summer 2004
Subjects: Apartheid, Hartman, Anton (1918-82), Music, Musicians & conductors, South Africa
...reading sessions, or the listening to the Afrikaans propaganda programmes broadcast by the...mention was not just the first-ever Afrikaans highschool in Johannesburg, but had...prayers and mixed with the singing of Afrikaans folk songs, would be slightly comical...
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Optimistic Tragedies
Magazine article by Rob Nixon; The Nation, Vol. 245, October 24, 1987
Subjects: Publishing industry, South African literature, TriQuarterly (Periodical)
...drawings and sculptures, Hein Willemses Afrikaans poetry and the Afrapix photographic collectives...whole novels given over to that subject. Afrikaans--the language of Botha, the police...Apartaans, the idiom of apartheid, and Afrikaans, one of Africas many tongues. The case...
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newspaper articles on: Afrikaans  - 295 results

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TIME FOR SMAL Talk Is over; Afrikaans Trick No Use to Gert Now Matfield's Sights Are Set on O'Driscoll
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 5, 2010
TIME FOR SMAL Talk Is over; Afrikaans Trick No Use to Gert Now Matfields...sleep for earlymorning lessons in Afrikaans. Gert Smal hardly offers a smile...along with the South Africans in Afrikaans as the visitors saw this vital aspect...
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Continuing Lessons in Forgiveness
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 28, 2010
Subjects: Jansen, Jonathan
...farming communities where everyone spoke Afrikaans, the language of the descendants of...move into the residence, and then an Afrikaans phrase appears in supertitles: "This...black students were forced to learn Afrikaans, the language of the white oppressor...
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Continuing the Lessons of Forgiveness
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 28, 2010
Subjects: Jansen, Jonathan
...farming communities where everyone spoke Afrikaans, the language of the descendants of...move into the residence, and then an Afrikaans phrase appears in supertitles: "This...black students were forced to learn Afrikaans, the language of the white oppressor...
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School of Many Tongues; an Inspiring Lesson in Tolerance from Comprehensive Where the Pupils Speak 57 Languages (Plus English)
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 21, 2005
...South Africa. Physical Education. Afrikaans * Martina Dwyer, Ireland. Science...Loggenberg, South Africa. Humanities. Afrikaans * Winnie Onyuku-Opukiri, England...Devan Chetty, South Africa. PE. Afrikaans * Mary Akanro, Nigeria. Maths. Yoruba...
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Me and My School Photo
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 8, 2010
Subjects: Leith, Prue, Musicians
...was always good at English, but hated Afrikaans, and besides, we didnt have any friends...language. I was even thrown out of my Afrikaans class. Then I learnt to my horror that I had to pass my Afrikaans exam if I was to get my matriculation...
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encyclopedia articles on: Afrikaans  - 17 results

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Afrikaans
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AFRIKAANS af r kans , member of the West Germanic...variant of Dutch (see Dutch language ). Afrikaans is spoken by close to 8 million people...essentially similar to that of Dutch; Afrikaans has absorbed quite a few words from the...
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South African Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in many African languages as well as Afrikaans (a vernacular derived from Dutch) and...See also African literature . Although Afrikaans had emerged as a distinctive language...led finally to the legal recognition of Afrikaans in 1925, and it replaced Dutch completely...
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South Africa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SOUTH AFRICA Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic...enforced under the policy of apartheid Afrikaans,=apartness, racial distinctions...and Tsonga. Many blacks also speak Afrikaans (the first language of about 60% of...
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Soweto
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...blacks. In 1976, Soweto was the scene of a massive uprising that began as a student protest against the governments use of Afrikaans in black schools. The rebellion soon became a violent expression of outrage at blacks inferior position under the South African...
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Breytenbach, Breyten
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...literary works were poems, many expressing his political views, and he is widely recognized as the finest living poet of the Afrikaans language. His verse volumes include Die ysterkoei moet sweet (1964; The Iron Cow Must Sweat ) and Voetskrif (1976; Footscript...
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