Afrikaans, also known as the Cape Dutch, belongs to the westGermanicbranch of theIndo-European language family. It is spoken by6.9 million people as a first and by 10.3 million people as a second language in South Africa. Afrikaans is also spoken in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swazi...
Zulu has a Roman-based orthography which was developed by Christian missionaries in the 19th century and adapted to represent the sounds of the language. Dental clicks are represented by the letter c, alveolar clicks are indicated by q, and lateral clicks are written with the letter x. Neither...
or even a letter crossed out. All the lontar manuscripts—oblong pages of lontar palm leaf, written on with a stylus and then bound between wooden slats—in a household are gathered and act as the representation of the goddess, to whom eighteen offerings are made, one for each of the let...
Afrikaans: sjampoe [ʃɐmpu] (shampoo) Czech: šplouchat [ˈʃplɔuxat] (to splash) English: ship, election, machine, mission, pressure, schedule. French: chat [ʃa] (cat) German: schön [ʃœːn] (beautiful) Irish: mise [miʃə] (me) Lingala: cakú / sha...
Daar word sterk gefokus op onder andere voorbeelde uit die Afrikaanse letterkunde en die werk van Willem Boshoff en Wopko Jensma. '[O]ns [word] deur die oog gelei en verlei om op die rym af te lees' (Opperman 1959:100). Die meeste van daardie goed [kykafrikaans] is geskryf ...
In a recent letter to groups representing some of the creators of this knowledge – PEN South Africa, PEN Afrikaans, and ANFASA (The Academic and Non-Fiction Authors Association of South Africa) – Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies stated that educational institutions like universities ar...
I wrote a poem about this (“My Letter to Children”), although admittedly this is more than one thing. I think I would tell the world to pay more attention to the beauty in life. Will you ever come back to South Africa, maybe when you retire?
It was just what I needed, because I had no idea what the heck I was doing. That outline was a lifesaver; it told me exactly what to do. I followed it to the letter and 28,000+ words later, I’d seamlessly written my first love story. ...
One flourish is the underscoring of a final letter to express “ing.” Speedwriting is considered easier to learn but not as rapid as the Pitman or Gregg shorthand systems, which use symbols rather than longhand letters. The system is taught in several languages (including German, Afrikaans, ...
This same short dash through the letter C gives the ch sound, through the longhand S it gives sh, and across the T it designates th. Abbreviations are used for a number of common words. Another American method, Hy-Speed Longhand, was first published under that title in 1932. Based on...