Afrikaans () is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the mainly Dutch settlers of what is now South Africa, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the course of the 18th century. Hence, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as "Cape Dutch" (a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers) or "kitchen Dutch" (a derogatory term used to refer to Afrikaans in its earlier days). However, it is also variously described as a creole or as a partially creolised language. The term is ultimately derived from Dutch "" meaning "African Dutch". It is the first language of most of the Afrikaners and Coloureds of Southern Africa.

Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages, including Portuguese, the Bantu languages, Malay, German and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin. Therefore, differences with Dutch often lie in the more analytic morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and a spelling that expresses Afrikaans pronunciation rather than standard Dutch. There is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languagesespecially in written form. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. what is Afrikaans?
2. what type?
3. where is it spoken?
4. where else?
5. any other places?
6. which places is it spoken the most?
7. where did it originate?
8. of where?
9. what did it used to be called?
10. when was that?
11. what is it also considered?
12. is that a negative reference?
13. what else is it described as?
14. what does Afrikaan mean?
15. who is it the main language for?
16. which language is it most similar to?
17. where can you see the most difference?
18. did it also take words from other languages?
19. which ones?
20. what percentage is from languages other than dutch?
Answer: 1. a language
2. West Germanic
3. South Africa
4. Namibia
5. Botswana and Zimbabwe
6. South Africa and Namibia
7. Dutch vernacular
8. South Holland
9. "Cape Dutch"
10. 18th century
11. "kitchen Dutch"
12. yes
13. a creole
14. "African Dutch"
15. Afrikaners and Coloureds of Southern Africa
16. Dutch
17. morphology and grammar
18. yes
19. Portuguese, the Bantu languages, Malay, German and the Khoisan languages
20. 5-10%

A study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research at United Nations University reports that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000. The three richest people in the world possess more financial assets than the lowest 48 nations combined. The combined wealth of the "10 million dollar millionaires" grew to nearly $41 trillion in 2008. A January 2014 report by Oxfam claims that the 85 wealthiest individuals in the world have a combined wealth equal to that of the bottom 50% of the world's population, or about 3.5 billion people. According to a Los Angeles Times analysis of the report, the wealthiest 1% owns 46% of the world's wealth; the 85 richest people, a small part of the wealthiest 1%, own about 0.7% of the human population's wealth, which is the same as the bottom half of the population. More recently, in January 2015, Oxfam reported that the wealthiest 1 percent will own more than half of the global wealth by 2016. An October 2014 study by Credit Suisse also claims that the top 1% now own nearly half of the world's wealth and that the accelerating disparity could trigger a recession. In October 2015, Credit Suisse published a study which shows global inequality continues to increase, and that half of the world's wealth is now in the hands of those in the top percentile, whose assets each exceed $759,900. A 2016 report by Oxfam claims that the 62 wealthiest individuals own as much wealth as the poorer half of the global population combined. Oxfam's claims have however been questioned on the basis of the methodology used: by using net wealth (adding up assets and subtracting debts), the Oxfam report, for instance, finds that there are more poor people in the United States and Western Europe than in China (due to a greater tendency to take on debts).[unreliable source?][unreliable source?] Anthony Shorrocks, the lead author of the Credit Suisse report which is one of the sources of Oxfam's data, considers the criticism about debt to be a "silly argument" and "a non-issue . . . a diversion." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who did the study on global assets?
2. What did the study show?
3. Does their wealth continue to grow?
4. Do they expect to own half of the wealth by 2016?
5. Could that cause any economic problems?
6. Do you know what problems it could create?
7. Has the method been questioned?
8. On what basis?
9. What is that?
10. Does a regions debt contribute to the the results?
11. What does Shorrocks say about the data?
12. Where are the most poor people located?
13. Anywhere else?
14. Why?
Answer:
1. the World Institute for Development Economics Research
2. that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000
3. yes
4. yes
5. yes
6. yes, a recession
7. yes
8. because they're using net wealth
9. (adding up assets and subtracting debts)
10. yes
11. that the criticism about debt is silly and a non-issue
12. the report says they're in the United States
13. and Western Europe
14. due to a greater tendancy to take on debts