DUTCH & AFRIKAANS LANGUAGES

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Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia; it is a separate standard language rather than a national variety, unlike Netherlands Dutch, Belgian Dutch and Surinamese Dutch. An estimated 90 to 95% of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin, so there are few lexical differences between the two languages, however Afrikaans has a considerably more regular morphology, grammar, and spelling.

here is a high degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages, particularly in written form. Research suggests that mutual intelligibility between Dutch and Afrikaans is better than between Dutch and Frisian or between Danish and Swedish. Mutual intelligibility tends to be asymmetrical, as it is easier for Dutch speakers to understand Afrikaans than for Afrikaans speakers to understand Dutch.

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[DdW]

As a Dutchman I agree Afrikaans is a lot easier to understand than Frisian.

[forestmanzpedia]

The Dutch complain about German grammar but don't realize Afrikaans has not only simplified grammar, writing but also no grammatical gender unlike Dutch itself.

[rjuttemeijer]

Afrikaans is still much related to the way Dutch was spoken in the 17th century.

[danielalmazov]

To all Dutch and Afrikaans-speakers, hello from Turkic-speaker guy from Central Asia! Dutch and Afrikaans languages are so beautiful and cool, I like them 🇳🇱🇿🇦

[hildeschmid]

I am a Belgian raised in the U. S. We speak Flemish, which is slightly different from Dutch, but is written the same, just pronounced a little different. I can understand Afrikaans, and, in fact, my Flemish, which I speak with an American accent, was mistaken for Afrikaans!

[lostinescland]

Dankie vir die video Andy :)))
Afrikaans is my gunsteling taal, ek het dit self geleer (en dit het my ook gehelp om Nederlands te verstaan). Ek het twee keer Suid-Afrika besoek en ek sien uit daarna om eendag terug te keer ♥'n Pragtige land met baie vriendelike mense en 'n ryk kultuur ♥

[LearnRunes]

Some old Dutch and South African friends said they could understand a lot of what each other said although it sounded very different.

[quincyking]

I love the Dutch & Afrikaans, they sound perfect🇳🇱🇿🇦

[shellcross]

I am fluent in English and Afrikaans. I understood more than 90% of the Dutch in this video.

[e.t.h.]

Afrikaans also has “vader/moeder”
it’s just bit archaic, we’d rather use ma/pa.

[Dhi_Bee]

I always just assumed they were way more similar. Now I know they’re pretty different in spelling & pronunciation of words & understand why they’re considered different languages.

[raymondwalters]

So glad to see my native language here! Thanks for the efforts Andy!

[ricardooliveira]

I was studying more about afrikaans yesterday, cool language )

[nsza]

Afrikaans normally sounds more expressive and lively than demonstrated in this video.

[PICTVS]

“jammer” Meaning sorry in Afrikaans is really funny to me as a Dutch speaker

[timothytruter]

As an Afrikaans speaker I find it much easier to understand than other languages, more so in writing but in speech it can be tricky if spoken too quickly, but still able to understand a decent amount.

[adolfvancoller]

What is very underrated is the Malay influence in Afrikaans. Our language begin very informally as a “kombuis-taal” (kitchen language) and is ultimately a creole. Fun fact: the oldest surviving Afrikaans text was written in Arabic!

[j.vandeven]

In the 1950’s South African politicians would come to the Netherlands and tv interviews/communications would all be in Afrikaans and Dutch. People understood each other. Nowadays Dutch and Afrikaans speakers have so much trouble understanding each other and rather switch to English.
I blame schooling for this.

[eliasnjetski]

I can say that I prefer Afrikaans. It seems a lot easier and always have the rolling "R:s" which I'm used to. Meanwhile in dutch they are using three kinds of "R". The guttural, the English one, and rolling. Afrikaans seems to be quite softer than dutch in speak as well.

[AlexSmith-twnf]

Im from SA and speak Afrikaans as a home language. My school used to give Duch as a subject but took it away before it was even an option for me to learn the language.