10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOUTH AFRICAN DUTCH»
Discover the use of
South African Dutch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
South African Dutch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Much Bigger than Grownups: Chronicles of a Native
South African
Singular: umfana (um-faana) (Zulu) Adonai: Lord (Hebrew) Adversary: a biblical
term for Satan Afrikaans: descendants of early South African Dutch, German and
French Huguenot settlers. Also the name of their language; an amalgamation of ...
2
Englishes Around the World: Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Australasia
English and South African Dutch English first found a foothold in South Africa at
the end of the 18th century during the first British occupation of the Cape (1795-
1803) and, from 1806 onwards, during a longer-term British occupation. In 1795 ...
Manfred Görlach, Edgar Werner Schneider, 1997
3
The Cambridge History of the English Language
The South African Dutch culture of the eighteenth century flowered in the Trekker
republics of the nineteenth and became the dominating Afrikanerdom of the
twentieth. Much that is characteristic of South African English can be traced to the
...
Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Robert Burchfield, 1994
4
Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English
In South Africa the contact with speakers of South African Dutch and its later
reflex Afrikaans has been long-lasting and is reflected by large numbers of loans.
The earliest of them even antedate British seizure of the Cape Colony in 1795.
5
Snow on the Cane Fields: Women's Writing and Creole Subjectivity
... overemphasize the positive ties between the South African English and South
African Dutch colonists. The place of the English language in South African life is
a central issue in Schreiner's fiction, making her work particularly "colonial" as ...
6
Language and Social History: Studies in
South African ...
... as in hamba (Nguni; pleasantly glossed as 'get you gone'), voetsek (with
similar meaning, a South African Dutch contraction of voort seg ik 'away, I say'),
and pas op ('watch out!' from Afrikaans); (iv) convenience, as with bakkie 'light
delivery ...
7
Oxford Dictionary of English
Afrikander /ˌafrɪˈkɑːndə/ (also Africander) 7noun an animal of a South
African breed of sheep or longhorn cattle. – origin early 19th cent. (an early form
of AFRIKANER, having the same senses): via Afrikaans from South African Dutch
.
8
National Character in
South African English Children's ...
... with South African Dutch/Afrikaans ghost stories and legends (such as Van
Hunks and the Devil, which had appeared in the Maskew Miller reader) and one
historical story, of a brave boy who survived the wreck of the Grosvenor in 1782.
9
World Englishes: Critical Concepts in Linguistics
3 Major influences on the South African English vocabulary 3.1 South African
Dutch and Afrikaans Of all South ... languages, South African Dutch (later
Afrikaans) has had the greatest effect upon the vocabulary of South African
English (SAE).
Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru, 2006
10
The Free State: A
South African Response to Chekhov's The ...
Slim J annie — (Afk): clever clogs, smartass. Heeltemaal alleen — (Afk):
completely alone. Baboon Spider — (probably translated South African Dutch:
baviaan spinnekop) any of several large, hairy, burrowing spiders of the
Theraphosidae.
