Oranjerivier-Afrikaans
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| Oranjerivier-Afrikaans | ||
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| Spoken in: | South Africa | |
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| Language family: | Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Low Franconian Afrikaans Oranjerivier-Afrikaans |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | af | |
| ISO 639-2: | afr | |
| ISO 639-3: | afr — Afrikaans
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Oranjerivier-Afrikaans ("Afrikaans of the Orange River") is a non-standard dialect of Afrikaans, which is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in northwestern South Africa and southern Namibia. Oranjerivier-Afrikaans has come into existence as a result of contact of Dutch settlers with Khoi-Khoi in South Africa. In the 19th century, it replaced the Khoi-Khoi languages. Some of the characteristics of Oranjerivier-Afrikaans are the plural form -goed (Ma-goed, meneergoed), variant pronunciation such as in kjerk (Church) and gjeld (money) and the ending -se, which indicates possession.
