Afrikaans to English Dictionary URL: http://www.rieme.co.za/woordeboek.asp?l=2&t=1 Content provider: Rieme Description: Containing 57,677 words at the time of writing, this dictionary supports a simple interface, free from clutter and commercials. Most words are accompanied by a large lis...
As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor languageWest Germanicand further back toProto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in the spelling (Hand,Sand,Finger) or in the pronunciation (Fish=Fisch,Mouse=Maus...
115dedicated to theyoung protagonists of the Soweto student riot of 1976 in South Africa during the apart-heid era, after a government decree imposed Afrikaans as a co-official teaching lan-guage along with English. This episode, the last of a long series of Afrikaner imposi-tions, was ...