and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English today is a constantly changing language that has been influenced by a plethora of different cultures and languages, such as Latin, French, Dutch, and Afrikaans.
contemporary Khoekhoegowab orthography Khoe-Sān (pronounced [kxʰoesaːn]), is a catch-all term forthose indigenous peoples of Southern Africa, who don't speak one of the Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen (formerly "Khoikhoi") and the Sān or Sākhoen (also, in Afrikaans: .....
The Afrikaans wordbraai (from braaivleis,or grilled meat) is one of the most commonly used words I’ve come across since I started hanging out with the SA crowd. The word has been verbed and its meaning widened substantially. Braaing is quite literally a national pastime: Heritage Day on...
The name STAM, an acronym for "Stand-off Text Annotation Model", is Dutch, Swedish, Afrikaans and Frisian for "trunk" (as in the trunk of a tree), the name itself depicts a solid foundation upon which more elaborate solutions can be built. Large parts of this specification are normative...
Gwen: As a little girl I grew up on a farm in Morreesburg in the Karoo and we were very much involved in day-to-day work on the farm. My mother was an Afrikaans farm girl. She was called Nauti. She wasn’t called that for nothing. My mother’s family was very conscious of le...
fast. They hared off in a cloud of dust. We told them to wait for us, or ask for Kort-Jan or Johannes, who speak Afrikaans, if they were unsure about the turnoff. If they were surprised that people speak Afrikaans in Botswana...
Our subjects/hosts know that their voices have not been reconstituted into often incomprehensible abstractions from which they are now absent and, in fact, request that we translate more of our work more often into Afrikaans (cf. for example Tomaselli and Oets 2004)...
The Afrikaans wordbraai (from braaivleis,or grilled meat) is one of the most commonly used words I’ve come across since I started hanging out with the SA crowd. The word has been verbed and its meaning widened substantially. Braaing is quite literally a national pastime: Heritage Day on...