Afrikaans Leid

It is a dochter leid o Dutch, oreeginatin in its 17t century dialects, collectively referred tae as Cape Dutch. 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.

Afrikaans
Pronunciation	[afriˈkɑːns]
Native tae	Sooth Africae, Namibie
Ethnicity	Afrikaners, Cape Coloured
Native speakers	7.2 million (2016) 10.3 million L2 speakers in Sooth Africae (2002)
Leid faimily	Indo-European Germanic Wast Germanic Law Franconian Dutch Afrikaans
Writin seestem	Latin using Afrikaans alphabet Afrikaans Braille
Signed forms	Signed Afrikaans
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
Linguasphere	52-ACB-ba
Regions shadit daurk blue represent auries o concentratit Afrikaans-speakin commonties
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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. It haes the widest geographical an racial distribution o aw offeecial leids, an is widely spoken an unnerstood as a seicont or third leid. 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. 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. Widely spoken as a seicont leid, it is a lingua franca o Namibie.

While the tot nummer o speakers o Afrikaans is unkent, estimates range atween 17.5 an 23 million.

In the grammar o Afrikaans, thare's nae sindry atween the infinitive an praisent forms o verbs, wi the exception o the verbs 'to be' and 'to have':

An aw, verbs dinna conjugate differently depending on the subject. For ensaumple,