Afrikaans · Afrikaans
Hub 8 verified age-safe resources . A short orientation plus a verified resource table — not a generated essay.
About Afrikaans
- Language family
- Indo-European, West Germanic
- Where it's spoken
- South Africa, Namibia
- Speakers
- roughly 7 million native speakers and 10–15 million total
Afrikaans developed from the Dutch dialects brought by 17th-century settlers to the Cape, reshaped through sustained contact with Malay, Khoisan, Bantu, and Portuguese-creole-speaking communities into a grammatically simplified daughter language. It dropped much of Dutch's verb conjugation and noun-gender system, making its grammar notably more regular than its parent language. It remains one of South Africa's most widely understood languages across racial and regional lines.
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DLI GLOSS (language search)
Search GLOSS for authentic Afrikaans reading/listening lessons — coverage varies by language.
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course free | B1-C1 | free | 2026-07-22 |
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Live Lingua Afrikaans course library
Public-domain FSI/Peace Corps course downloads with audio, where available — hub anchor.
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course free | A1-B1 | free | 2026-07-22 |