The Afrikaans language (basic info)

Today's topic is the Africans language. A couple of weeks ago, I released a video on the Dutch language, which you can find right here. This is kind of a follow-up to that video because Africans is a descendant of Dutch. That means that just like Dutch, Africans is a West Germanic language. Africans has a total of about 7. 1 million native speakers with 6. 85 million of those in South Africa. That's about 13. 5% of the South African population. That makes it the third most widely spoken language in South Africa. And it's the majority language in the western half of the country. That means northern Cape and Western Cape provinces. It's the native language of about 61% of white South Africans. And it's the native language of more than 3/4 of quote unquote colored South Africans, about 3. 4 million people. In South Africa, the term colored means people of mixed racial background. I didn't choose that term myself. It's also the native language of 4. 6% of Asian South Africans. 1. 5% of black South Africans. That's about 600,000 people. And there are 10 to 15 million second language speakers in South Africa. In Namibia, it's the native language of 10 or 11% of people, including 60% of the white population. It's also widely used as a lingua frana and most people can speak it as a second or third language.