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Loanwords from Bantu languages in Afrikaans include the names of indigenous birds, such as mahem and sakaboela, and indigenous plants, such as maroela and tamboekie(gras). [120]

Below is a list of the major languages of Africa by region, family and total number of primary language speakers in millions. American Community Survey, 5-year estimates". Ipums USA. University of Minnesota . Retrieved 10 March 2023.Official projection "2019 KPHC – Analytical Report on Population Projections Vol XVI". knbs.or.ke. 15 Nov 2022. p23 . Retrieved 25 Jun 2023. Diaeresis indicates the start of new syllable, thus ë, ëe and ëi are pronounced like 'e', 'ee' and 'ei', respectively Donaldson, Bruce C. (1993), A grammar of Afrikaans, Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 9783110134261 , retrieved 28 May 2010

Most of the first settlers whose descendants today are the Afrikaners were from the United Provinces (now Netherlands), [26] with up to one-sixth of the community of French Huguenot origin, and a seventh from Germany. [27] Afroasiatic languages are spread throughout Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel. The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, covering 8.5 million square kilometers (3.3 million square miles), about the size of the South American country of Brazil. Defining Africa's northern bulge, the Sahara makes up 25 percent of the continent. Afrikaans descended from Dutch dialects in the 17th century. It belongs to a West Germanic sub-group, the Low Franconian languages. [42] Other West Germanic languages related to Afrikaans are German, English, the Frisian languages, and the unstandardised languages Low German and Yiddish. Willemyns, Roland (2013). Dutch: Biography of a Language. Oxford University Press. p.232. ISBN 978-0-19-985871-2.In Afrikaans, many consonants are dropped from the earlier Dutch spelling. For example, slechts ('only') in Dutch becomes slegs in Afrikaans. Also, Afrikaans and some Dutch dialects make no distinction between /s/ and /z/, having merged the latter into the former; while the word for "south" is written zuid in Dutch, it is spelled suid in Afrikaans (as well as dialectal Dutch writings) to represent this merger. Similarly, the Dutch digraph ij, normally pronounced as /ɛi/, corresponds to Afrikaans y, except where it replaces the Dutch suffix –lijk which is pronounced as /lək/, as in waarschijnlijk> waarskynlik. Lepsius räknar även nama-bushman-språken till de hamitiska; en felaktig klassifikation, som länge bestod (och faller tillbaka bakom klassifikationen från 1850). Även inordning av massajiskan (idag räknat som nilosahariskt språk) som hamitiskt språk.