Afrikaans
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Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia, originating from 17th-century Dutch and influenced by various African and Asian languages.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans canonical | 125 |
| Afrikaans language | 4 |
| Afrikaans literature | 2 |
| Standard Afrikaans | 2 |
| Afrikaans Wikinews | 1 |
| Afrikaans in Namibia | 1 |
| Eastern Border Afrikaans | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T84801 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Afrikaans Context triple: [Afrikaners, language, Afrikaans]
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A.
South African English
South African English is the variety of English spoken in South Africa, characterized by distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and influences from Afrikaans and indigenous African languages.
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B.
Northern Ndebele
Northern Ndebele is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken primarily in southwestern Zimbabwe and closely related to Zulu.
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C.
Afrikaners
Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group descended primarily from Dutch settlers, known for speaking Afrikaans and playing a central role in the country’s colonial and apartheid-era history.
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D.
Dutch
Dutch is a West Germanic language spoken primarily in the Netherlands and Belgium, serving as the basis for several regional and colonial varieties such as Flemish and Afrikaans.
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E.
South Africa
South Africa is a country at the southern tip of the African continent, known for its cultural and linguistic diversity, complex history of apartheid and democratic transition, and significant economic and political influence in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Afrikaans Target entity description: Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia, originating from 17th-century Dutch and influenced by various African and Asian languages.
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A.
South African English
South African English is the variety of English spoken in South Africa, characterized by distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and influences from Afrikaans and indigenous African languages.
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B.
Northern Ndebele
Northern Ndebele is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken primarily in southwestern Zimbabwe and closely related to Zulu.
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C.
Afrikaners
Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group descended primarily from Dutch settlers, known for speaking Afrikaans and playing a central role in the country’s colonial and apartheid-era history.
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D.
Sranan Tongo
Sranan Tongo is an English- and Dutch-influenced creole language originating in Suriname, widely used as a lingua franca among its diverse ethnic communities.
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E.
Dutch
Dutch is a West Germanic language spoken primarily in the Netherlands and Belgium, serving as the basis for several regional and colonial varieties such as Flemish and Afrikaans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
West Germanic language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Dutch
ⓘ
Flemish ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Dutch ⓘ |
| developedInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| developedInRegion | Cape Colony ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Cape Afrikaans
ⓘ
Afrikaans self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Border Afrikaans
Orange River Afrikaans ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
double negation in standard usage
ⓘ
simplified verb conjugation ⓘ |
| hasGrammarType | analytic language ⓘ |
| hasISO639-1Code | af ⓘ |
| hasISO639-2Code | afr ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | afr ⓘ |
| hasNativeName | Afrikaans ⓘ |
| hasStandardForm |
Afrikaans
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Afrikaans
|
| influencedBy |
Bantu languages
ⓘ
English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Khoisan languages ⓘ Malay ⓘ Portuguese language ⓘ
surface form:
Portuguese
|
| languageBranch | West Germanic languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Germanic languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| officialStatusIn |
Namibia
ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | 17th-century Dutch ⓘ |
| primaryCountry |
Namibia
ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ |
| recognizedAsDistinctLanguageFrom | Dutch ⓘ |
| regulatingBody | Taalkommissie van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Australia
ⓘ
Botswana ⓘ Canada ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Zimbabwe ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Germanic language
ⓘ
Indo-European language ⓘ |
| usedByEthnicGroup |
Afrikaners
ⓘ
Coloureds in South Africa ⓘ |
| usedInDomain |
education in South Africa
ⓘ
literature ⓘ media in South Africa ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Afrikaans Description of subject: Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia, originating from 17th-century Dutch and influenced by various African and Asian languages.
Referenced by (136)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.