Hollywood star Charlize Theron has been called out for saying her mother tongue Afrikaans is a “dying language”. The South African-American actor and producer diminished the language on the Smartless ...

Charlize Theron has been facing some backlash for claiming that her first language, Afrikaans, is dying out. The 47-year-old actor opened up about growing up in South Africa while appearing on ...

Johannesburg — Shocked South Africans have taken to social media to voice their outrage that Ryanair is making some passengers take a test in Afrikaans in order to fly. Last week, the airline started ...

English is a language with a rich history of evolution. It has been influenced by Greek, French, Latin, Dutch, Afrikaans, and many other languages over the centuries. As a result of its widespread use ...

Lloyd Hill received funding from the South African National Research Foundation (Grant #111845). When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, five of the country’s universities used Afrikaans as a ...

A Canadian broke down the three main dialects of Afrikaans spoken in South Africa, and native speakers in the comments said his accuracy was almost unsettling.