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.^{[n 1]} 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.^{[n 2]}

Afrikaans
Pronunciation	[afriˈkɑːns]
Native tae	Sooth Africae, Namibie
Ethnicity	Afrikaners, Cape Coloured
Native speakers	7.2 million (2016)[1] 10.3 million L2 speakers in Sooth Africae (2002)[2]
Leid faimily	Indo-European Germanic Wast Germanic Law Franconian Dutch Afrikaans
Writin seestem	Latin using Afrikaans alphabet Afrikaans Braille
Signed forms	Signed Afrikaans[3]
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Sooth Africae
Recognised minority leid in	Namibie
Regulatit bi	Die Taalkommissie
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	af
ISO 639-2	afr
ISO 639-3	afr
Glottolog	afri1274[4]
Linguasphere	52-ACB-ba
Regions shadit daurk blue represent auries o concentratit Afrikaans-speakin commonties
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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.^[5][6] It haes the widest geographical an racial distribution o aw offeecial leids, an is widely spoken an unnerstood as a seicont or third leid.^{[n 3]} 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.^{[n 4]} 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.^{[n 5]} Widely spoken as a seicont leid, it is a lingua franca o Namibie.^{[n 6]}

While the tot nummer o speakers o Afrikaans is unkent, estimates range atween 17.5 an 23 million.^{[n 7]}