afrikaans language
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GREETING AND COURTESIES Good morning – goeie more Good afternoon – goeie middag Good evening – goeie naad Good day - Goeie dag | Brief history of Afrikaans language. The history of Afrikaans is a rich and diverse one with a complex history and a sense of cultural distinctness. Afrikaans also known as the cape Dutch, is a West Germanic language in South Africa alone. Afrikaans is spoken about 7 million as a first language and by approximately 10 million people as a second language. It is also spoken in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, and Swaziland, Zambia as well as other continents as a home or second language. In 1858 a private school, De Gimnasium, with Dutch as the language of instruction, was established in Paarl. This school was for the Afrikaans speaking children. In 1866, a teacher called Arnoldus Pannevis realised that the language spoken by the people were far removed from Dutch. Pannevis was the first person to call it by name: Afrikaans. He wanted to establish Afrikaans as a written language too. The deeply religious Pannevis was eager to translate the bible into Afrikaans. The bible society instructed SJ du Toit to look into this. | EMERGENCY I need a doctor – ek het ? dokter noding Call the police – Bel dir polisie asseblief |
SEASONS Summer - somer Autumn - herfs Winter - seisoen Spring – lente | ||
DAYS Monday - maandag Tuesday - dinsdag Wednesday - woensdag Thursday - donderdag Friday - vrydag Saturday - Saterdag Sunday – sondag | ||
MONTHS January - januarie February - februarie March - maart April - april May - mei June - junie July - julie August - augustus September - september October - oktober November - November December – desember | ||
ASKING FOR HELP Can you help me – kan jy my help I can't find my way back to my hotel – ek kan nie die pad terug na my hotel kry nie Is there a pharmacy nearby – Is daar ? apteek in die omge wig | ||
NUMBERS One Een Two - twee Three - drie Four - vier Five - vyf | ||
