Afrikaans

Abstract

This article focuses on the social and political history of Afrikaans, a relatively young, fully standardised language spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia. Afrikaans originated from the Dutch that was spoken in the Cape Colony from the seventeenth century onwards, which changed through internal language change, language contact with a variety of languages and creolisation. Attempts to formally separate Afrikaans as a language from Dutch started in the nineteenth century, and Afrikaans received status as an official language of South Africa in 1925. It is currently the mother tongue of several million South Africans and Namibians and boasts with a formidable literature.

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