History With Hilbert | Why was the first Afrikaans written in Arabic Letters? @historywithhilbert | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken by around 13.5 million in South Africa, 60% of white South Africans, and 75% of the country's Coloured population. It is closely related to Dutch with which it shares 90-95% lexical similarities though several other languages have contributed to the development of Afrikaans. In this video I'll be looking at the Cape Malay minority, and the first written record of Afrikaans which was done not in the Roman Alphabet but rather in the Arabic script brought over by the servants and slaves of the Dutch from modern-day Malaysia and Indonesia.
Further reading:
file:///C:/Users/hilbe/Downloads/Arabic-Afrikaans_Literature_at_the_Cape.pdf
web.archive.org/web/20060626033833/smi.uib.no/sa/12/12Ajami.pdf
Music Used:
Sunday Dub - Kevin MacLeod
Eine Kleine Nachtsmusik - Mozart
Eastern Thought - Kevin MacLeod
Cambodian Odyssey - Kevin MacLeod
Charter - Kevin MacLeod
Clean Soul - Kevin MacLeod
Dhaka - Kevin MacLeod
East of Tunisia - Kevin MacLeod
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Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken by around 13.5 million in South Africa, 60% of white South Africans, and 75% of the country's Coloured population. It is closely related to Dutch with which it shares 90-95% lexical similarities though several other languages have contributed to the development of Afrikaans. In this video I'll be looking at the Cape Malay minority, and the first written record of Afrikaans which was done not in the Roman Alphabet but rather in the Arabic script brought over by the servants and slaves of the Dutch from modern-day Malaysia and Indonesia.
Further reading:
file:///C:/Users/hilbe/Downloads/Arabic-Afrikaans_Literature_at_the_Cape.pdf
web.archive.org/web/20060626033833/smi.uib.no/sa/12/12Ajami.pdf
Music Used:
Sunday Dub - Kevin MacLeod
Eine Kleine Nachtsmusik - Mozart
Eastern Thought - Kevin MacLeod
Cambodian Odyssey - Kevin MacLeod
Charter - Kevin MacLeod
Clean Soul - Kevin MacLeod
Dhaka - Kevin MacLeod
East of Tunisia - Kevin MacLeod
Raid the Merch Market:
teespring.com/en-GB/stores/history-with-hilberts-market
Go Fund My Windmills (Patreon):
patreon.com/HistorywithHilbert
Join in the Banter on Twitter:
twitter.com/HistorywHilbert
Enter the Fray on Facebook:
facebook.com/HistorywHilbert
Indulge in some Instagram..?(the alliteration needs to stop):
instagram.com/historywithhilbert
Send me an email if you'd be interested in doing a collaboration! historywithhilbert@gmail.com
#netherlands #southafrica #history