Afrikaans leid

Afrikaans
Pronunciation	[afriˈkɑːns]
Native tae	Sooth Africae, Namibie
Ethnicity	Afrikaners, Cape Coloured
Native speakers	7.2 million (2016)[1] 10.3 million L2 speakers in Sooth Africae (2002)[2]
Leid faimily	Indo-European Germanic Wast Germanic Law Franconian Dutch Afrikaans
Writin seestem	Latin using Afrikaans alphabet Afrikaans Braille
Signed forms	Signed Afrikaans[3]
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Sooth Africae
Recognised minority leid in	Namibie
Regulatit bi	Die Taalkommissie
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	af
ISO 639-2	afr
ISO 639-3	afr
Glottolog	afri1274[4]
Linguasphere	52-ACB-ba
Regions shadit daurk blue represent auries o concentratit Afrikaans-speakin commonties
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Afrikaans is a Wast Germanic leid, mainly spoken in Sooth Africae and Namibie. It is a dochter leid o Dutch, oreeginatin in its 17t century dialects, collectively referred tae as Cape Dutch.^{[n 1]} Awtho Afrikaans borraed frae leids sic as Malay, Portuguese, the Bantu leids or the Khoisan leids, an estimatit 90 tae 95 percent o Afrikaans vocabulary is o Dutch origin.^{[n 2]}

Wi aboot 6 million native speakers in Sooth Africae, or 13.3 percent o the population, it is the third maist spoken mither tongue in the kintra.^[5][6] It haes the widest geographical an racial distribution o aw offeecial leids, an is widely spoken an unnerstood as a seicont or third leid.^{[n 3]} It is the majority leid o the wastren hauf o Sooth Africae—the provinces o the Northren Cape an Wastren Cape—an the primary leid o the coloured an white communities.^{[n 4]} In neebourin Namibie, Afrikaans is spoken in 11 percent o hoosehaulds, mainly concentratit in the caipital Windhoek an the soothren regions o Hardap an Karas.^{[n 5]} Widely spoken as a seicont leid, it is a lingua franca o Namibie.^{[n 6]}

While the tot nummer o speakers o Afrikaans is unkent, estimates range atween 17.5 an 23 million.^{[n 7]}

1. ↑ Afrikaans at Ethnologue (19t ed., 2016)
2. ↑ Webb (2002), 14:78.
3. ↑ Aarons & Reynolds, "South African Sign Language" in Monaghan (ed.), Many Ways to be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities (2003).
4. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Afrikaans". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
5. ↑ "Census 2001 - Home language". Statistics Sooth Africae. Retrieved 2 Februar 2010.^{[deid airtin]}
6. ↑ "Census 2001: Primary tables Sooth Africae: Census 1996 an 2001 compared" (PDF). Statistics Sooth Africae. Statistics Sooth Africae. 2001. p. 19. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2010.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)