A Grammar of Afrikaans

A Grammar of Afrikaans (Mouton Grammar Library, No. by Bruce C. Donaldson
English | Jan 1, 1993 | ISBN: 3110134268 | 497 Pages | PDF | 77 MB
Afrikaans has been one of the two official languages of the Republic of South Africa since 1925 when an act of parliament replaced Dutch with Afrikaans. It is the mother tongue of at least five million South Africans as well as of some tens of thousands of Namibians. This number includes approximately two and a half million whites, so-called Afrikaners, who were formerly commonly called Boers; the rest of the white population, about one and a half million, speak English as their mother tongue.
The so-called Cape Coloureds, who are descended from the first Dutch settlers, imported Indian and Malay slaves, as well as from black slaves (chiefly from Angola) and Hottentots (the original inhabitants of the Western Cape, now extinct), are more or less equal in number to the Afrikaners and the vast majority of them also speak Afrikaans as their mother tongue. In Namibia, which was taken from Germany by South Africa in 1914 and which only gained its independence in March 1990, the majority of the white population of 100,000 are also Afrikaners, followed by Germans and lastly by people of English-speaking descent. The various groups of mixed race living in Namibia also have Afrikaans as their mother tongue and the most wide-spread lingua franca of the total population of one and a quarter million is Afrikaans, although it was deprived of its official status at independence. In South Africa too Afrikaans serves in many rural areas as the predominant lingua franca between whites and blacks. It is therefore difficult to estimate how many people overall use Afrikaans on a daily basis but it is certainly several millions more than those whose mother tongue it is.



Title: A Grammar of Afrikaans
Size: 77.07 MB | Format: pdf
Download:

Code:

http://uploaded.net/file/l7gpybpz/hexzw.A.Grammar.of.Afrikaans.pdf
https://userscloud.com/t01wj3vf6zb0/hexzw.A.Grammar.of.Afrikaans.pdf
http://rapidgator.net/file/61cabaed04a787119c727f58b937a2c5/hexzw.A.Grammar.of.Afrikaans.pdf.html