Afrikaans is one of the youngest Germanic (e.g. English, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian) languages. Afrikaans originated in South Africa about 200 years ago. Currently about 80 million people worldwide speak Afrikaans. Most Afrikaans speakers live in Southern Africa and Namibia. Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, USA Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands are some other countries where Afrikaans speaker live.

Afrikaans has been one of South Africa's official languages for over 50 years. It is not a black African language. Though it is mainly a white language it is not class-biased. Afrikaans is closely related to Dutch, and has been influenced by French, English and Malay. It was used in print as early as 1850.

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