Afrikaans leid

Afrikaans is a Wast Germanic leid, mainly spoken in Sooth Africae and Namibie. It is a dochter leid o Dutch, oreeginatin in its 17t century dialects, collectively referred tae as Cape Dutch.Afrikaans is a dochhter leid o Dutch; see , , , , , .
Afrikaans wis historically cawed Cape Dutch; see , , , , , .
Afrikaans is rootit in seiventeent century dialects o Dutch; see , , , .
Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised leid, or a different variety o Dutch; see . Awtho Afrikaans borraed frae leids sic as Malay, Portuguese, the Bantu leids or the Khoisan leids, an estimatit 90 tae 95 percent o Afrikaans vocabulary is o Dutch origin.

Wi aboot 6 million native speakers in Sooth Africae, or 13.3 percent o the population, it is the third maist spoken mither tongue in the kintra. It haes the widest geographical an racial distribution o aw offeecial leids, an is widely spoken an unnerstood as a seicont or third leid. It is the majority leid o the wastren hauf o Sooth Africae—the provinces o the Northren Cape an Wastren Cape—an the primary leid o the coloured an white communities.Accordin tae the 2001 census , 79.5% o the so-cawed coloured community uised Afrikaans as a hame leid, 59.1% o the white population, 1.7% o the Indian population an 0.7% o the black population.For the geographical distribution o Afrikaans; see an aa Afrikaans speakin population in Sooth Africae. In neebourin Namibie, Afrikaans is spoken in 11 percent o hoosehaulds, mainly concentratit in the caipital Windhoek an the soothren regions o Hardap an Karas. Widely spoken as a seicont leid, it is a lingua franca o Namibie. 

While the tot nummer o speakers o Afrikaans is unkent, estimates range atween 17.5 an 23 million.What follaes ar estimations. Afrikaans haes 16.3 million speakers; see . Afrikaans haes a total o 16 million speakers; see . Aboot 9 million fowk speak Afrikaans as a seicont or third leid; see , . Afrikaans haes ower 5 million native speakers an 15 million seicont leid speakers; see . Afrikaans haes aboot 6 million native an 16 million seicont leid speakers; see . In Sooth Africa, ower 23 million fowk speak Afrikaans an a third ar first-language speakers; see . L2 "Black Afrikaans" is spoken, wi different degrees o fluency, bi an estimatit 15 million; see .

 Grammar 
In the grammar o Afrikaans, thare's nae sindry atween the infinitive an praisent forms o verbs, wi the exception o the verbs 'to be' and 'to have':
 infinitive form present indicative form Dutch Scots Germanwees  is  zijn (imperative: wees)  be  seinhê  het  hebben  hae  haben
An aw, verbs dinna conjugate differently depending on the subject. For ensaumple,
 Afrikaans  Dutch  Scots  Germanek is  ik ben  A am  ich binjy/u is  jij/u bent  you/ye are (sing.)  du bist (informal sing.)hy/sy/dit is  hij/zij/het is  he/she/it is  er/sie/es istons is  wij zijn  we are  wir sindjulle is  jullie zijn  you/ye are (plur.)  ihr seid (informal pl.)hulle is  zij zijn  thay are  Sie (formal sing. & pl.)/sie sind

 References 

Category:Analytic leids

Category:Leids o Botswana
Category:Leids o Namibie
Category:Leids o Sooth Africae
Category:Leids o Eswatini
Category:Law Franconian leids
Category:Subject–object–verb leids
Category:Verb-seicont leids