Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, and, to a lesser extent, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It came from the Dutch language of Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by European immigrants (Dutch, French, and German) and their slaves in South Africa, where it gradually began to grow. distinguishing features during the 18th century.

Many linguists are considered part of the Creole language in part, rather than in whole, Afrikaans language researchers believe that Afrikaans is part of the Creole only.

Although Afrikaans has adopted words in other languages, including German and Khoisan, about 90% to 95% of Afrikaans vocabulary is of Dutch origin. and Afrikaans grammar and spelling that reflects Afrikaans pronunciation rather than ordinary Dutch.  There is a high level of understanding between the two languages, especially in writing.

With about seven million native speakers inAfrikaans Language, or 13.5% of the population, it is the third most widely spoken language in the country. The total number of Afrikaans speakers is between 15 and 23 million. [Note 2] It has a wide geographical distribution of all 11 South African official languages ​​and is widely spoken and understood as a second or third language.

[Note 3] The most widely used language in the western part of South Africa — the provinces of the Northern Cape and the Western Cape — and the first language of 75.8% South African Colors (4.8 million people), 60.8% of the White South African population (2.7 million people), and 4.6% of South African Indians (58,000 people), and 1.5% black South Africans (600,000 people).

History

Origin

The Afrikaans language originated in the Dutch Cape Colony, with a gradual separation from the European Dutch dialects, during the 18th century.  In the middle of the 18th century and as recently as the mid-20th century, Afrikaans was commonly known in Dutch as the “kitchen language” (Afrikaans: kombuistaal), lacking respect given, for example, even by the education system.

Africa, in languages ​​spoken outside of Africa. Other ancient epithets set aside the Kaaps Hollands (“Cape Dutch”, i.e. Afrikaans) as inferior to Dutch official standards including geradbraakt, gebroken and onbeschaafd Hollands (“Dutch mutilated / broken / uncivilized Dutch). “), and verkeerd Nederlands (” wrong Dutch “)

Development

Most of the first settlers of modern-day Afrikaner descent came from the United States (now in the Netherlands and Flanders), although about one-sixth of the population also came from French Huguenot, and the seventh in Germany.

African and Asian workers, children of color in Cape Town, European immigrants and Khoikhoi women, and slaves contributed to the development of Afrikaans. Slaves are made up of people from East Africa, West Africa, India, Madagascar, and the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia).  A few were also Khoisan natives, who were respected as interpreters, domestic workers, and laborers.

Many free and enslaved women are married, cohabited, or have been victims of sexual violence by Dutch men. M-M. F. Valkhoff argued that 75% of children born to female slaves in the Dutch Cape Colony between 1652 and 1672 had a Dutch father. Sarah Gray Thomason and Terrence Kaufman argued that the development of Afrikaans as a distinct language was “strongly encouraged by white people who did not learn Dutch as a second language.”

As early as 1815, Afrikaans began to replace Malay as a language of instruction in Islamic schools in South Africa, written in Arabic characters: see Afrikaans in Arabic. Later, Afrikaans, now written in Latin, appeared in newspapers and on political and religious literature about the 1850’s (along with the Dutch already established).

In 1875, a group of Afrikaans-speaking people from Cape Town formed the Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaanders (“Society for Real Afrikaners”),  and published a number of Afrikaans books including grammar, dictionaries, religious books and histories.

Until the early 20th century, Afrikaans was considered the official Dutch language, along with the common Dutch, which eventually replaced it as the official language.  Before the Afrikaner wars, “and indeed some time later, Afrikaans was regarded as unsuitable in the learned language. Instead, Afrikaans was derided as ‘kitchen language’ or ‘bastard jargon’, which is especially suitable for communication between Afrikaners and their Afrikaners. Servants.” [source] best needed]

 

Dutch understanding

About 90 to 95% of the Afrikaans dictionary is ultimately native to the Dutch, and there are slight word differences between the two languages.  Afrikaans has a very common morphology, grammar, and spelling. There is a high level of understanding between the two languages,  especially in writing.

Afrikaans received lexicography and integration into other languages ​​such as Malay, Khoisan languages, Portuguese, and African languages, and Afrikaans have also been strongly influenced by South African English.  Dutch speakers face fewer inaccurate words when listening to Afrikaans than in other ways.  Interpersonal relationships are therefore not always easy, as it is easier for Dutch-speakers to understand Afrikaans than for Afrikaans speakers to understand Dutch.

Oranjerivierafrikaans

The term Oranjerivierafrikaans (“Orange River Orange”) is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to the Northern Cape vernacular; is widely used in the rare Afrikaans vernacular spoken in the Upington / Orange River wine region in South Africa.

Some of the features of the Oranjerivierafrikaans are the plural form of the word-goed (Ma-goed, meneergoed), a different pronunciation such as kjerk (“Church”) and gjeld (“money”) and the end -se, indicating existence.

Patagonian Afrikaans dialect

A distinct Afrikaans language is spoken by the 650 South African Argentine community in the province of Patagonia.

Impact on Afrikaans in other languages ​​

Malay

Due to the establishment of the Cape Malay community in Cape Town, now known as Coloreds, many Malay words in Malay are introduced in Afrikaans. Some of these words came in Dutch using immigrants, now known as Indonesia as part of their colonial heritage. Malay words in Afrikaans include:

• Baie, meaning ‘very’ / ‘many’ / ‘many’ (from banyak) is the most commonly used Afrikaans word, different from the Dutch such as veel or erg.
• Baadjie, Afrikaans jacket (from baju, finally from Persian), was used when the Dutch used the jas or vest. The word baadje in Dutch is now regarded as ancient and is used only in written, textual texts.
• Bobotie, a traditional Cape-Malay dish, made from minced meat baked with egg yolk.
• piesang, which means banana. This is different from the common Dutch word banaan. The Indonesian word pisang is also used in Dutch, although its use is very common.
• piercing, meaning saucer (from piring, and from Persia).

Portuguese

Other Portuguese names such as sambreel (“umbrella”) are derived from the Portuguese sombreiro, kraal (“cattle enclosure”) from the Portuguese curral, and mielie (“corn”, from milho). These words are so common in South Africa that they are used in many other South African languages. Some of these words also exist in Dutch, such as the sambreel “parasol”, although usage is rare and the meanings may vary slightly.

Khoisan languages ​​

• marijuana, which means marijuana
• geitjie, meaning lizard, is derived from the Khoekhoe word
• gogga, meaning insect, from Khoisan xo-xo
• Karos, a garment of animal skins
• kierie, a walking stick from Khoekhoe

Some of these words also exist in Dutch, although they have a specific meaning: assegaai for example means “South African national spear” and karos means “South African national garment of animal skins”.

African languages ​​

Loan terms from African languages ​​include the names of indigenous birds, such as mahem and sakaboela, and indigenous plants, such as maroela and tamboekie (gras).

• learner, which is derived from the Zulu word learner which means “scholar” or “student”, but usually refers to a person who is a student / expert in a particular subject, ie a language learner.
• lobola, meaning lobola, comes from (and refers to) lobola in the Nguni languages ​​
• mahem, a gray-headed crane, known in Latin as Balearica regulorum
• maroela, a medium-sized dioecious tree known in Latin as Sclerocarya birrea
• tamboekiegras, a type of thatched grass known as Hyparrhenia
• Tambotie, a leafy tree known by its Latin name, Spirostachys africana
• tjaila / tjailatyd, a translation of the word chaile, meaning “to go home” or “to knock (at work)”.

French

The abolition of the Edict of Nantes on 22 October 1685 marked a milestone in the history of South Africa, as it marked the beginning of the great Huguenot migration to France. It is estimated that between 250,000 and 300,000 Protestants left France between 1685 and 1700; of these, according to Louvois, 100,000 received military training.

The average rate of these immigrants and their domestic acceptance (especially South Africa) is given by H. V. Morton in his book: In Search of South Africa (London, 1948). The Huguenots were heavily responsible for the Afrikaans language, especially in terms of military names as many of them fought in battlefields during the Great Trek wars.

Many of the names in this list are of Dutch descent borrowed from French, Old French or Latin, and are not directly influenced by French in Afrikaans.

The Afrikaans alphabet is based on Dutch, using 26 letters of the basic Latin alphabet ISO, as well as 16 additional vowel letters. Hyphen (e.g. in a compound such as see-eend ‘sea duck’), apostrophe (eg ‘mothers’ mother), and a white space character (e.g. in units with as many names as Dooie See’ Dead Sea ” ‘) is part of the word orthography, while the abstract ʼn is ligature.

All alphabets, including those with syllabus, have large letters like allographs; ʼn does not have a large alphabet case. This means that Afrikaans has 88 graphs with a total of allographs.

Sample text

Psalm 23 1983

Die Here is my Herder, but only a few words.

Not laat my rus in green weiveldde. Hy bring me to the water waar daar vrede is.

Well then, my lord. Hy lei my op die regte van malie tot eer Sy naam.

Selfs al gaan ek deur donker dieptes, sal ek nie bang wees nie, want U ngeyami. In U hande is ek veilig.

Psalm 23 1953 Translation:

Die Here is my Herder, niks sal my ontbreek nie.

Hy laat my neerlê in green weivelde; water waar rus, lei Hy my heen.

Not verkwik siel yami; I-hi lei my in die spore van geregtigheid, om sy Naam ontwil.

Al gaan ek ook in ‘n dal van doodskaduwee, ek sal geen onheil vrees nie; I want U is met my: u stok en u staf die vertroos my.

The Lord’s Prayer (Afrikaans New Living translation) [citation needed]

Ons Vader in the morning, at U Naam geheilig name.

Laat U koningsheerskappy spoedig kom.

Laat U will hier on aarde uitgevoer word soos in die hemel.

Gee ons die porsie brood wat ons vir vandag nodig het.

You are about to proceed with the investigation.

Tolerate sodats without slight modification; and live on the greep of the Bose.

Want van U ifa koninkryk,

in the krag,

in the dead,

all in ewigheid. Amen

The Lord’s Prayer (True Translation): [citation needed]

The All Vader wat in die hemel says,

laat U Naam geheilig voice;

laat U koninkryk kom;

You will be tested on the ground,

net soos in die hemel.

Gee ons vandag ons daaglikse brood;

en vergeef ons ons skulde

soos ons ons skuldenaars vergewe

and many things I do not know at all

maar verlos ons van die Bose

You want to be able to die

ngifa krag

in heerlikheid

all in ewigheid. Amen

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What Is a Translator?

This article is about language translation for programming languages. For native language translations, see native language processing and machine translation.

Translator or processor language editing word that can mean anything that changes the code from one computer language to another. A system written in high quality language is called a source program. These include translations between advanced and readable computer languages ​​such as C ++ and Java, intermediate languages ​​such as Java bytecode, low-level languages ​​such as compound language and machine code, and between similar levels of computer on different computers. platforms, as well as from any of the above.

The term is also used for translators between software applications and software applications (ASICs microchips) of the same system, and from microchip software descriptions to the logical gates needed to be built. [Catation needed]

Different types of translators

The 3 different types of translators are usually as follows:

Compiler

Compiler is a translator used to convert high-level editing language into low-level editing language. It modifies the entire program in one session and reports errors found after conversion. The compiler takes time to do his job as he translates the high-level code to the low-level code all at once and keeps it in memory. The compiler depends on the processor and depends on the location. It can be handled by other words such as the following: a special connector, a single-part connector, a source-to-source connector.

Interpreter

The translator is like a compiler, in that it is a translator used to translate high-quality editing language into a standard editing language. The difference is that it modifies the program one line of code at a time and reports errors when detected, while performing modifications. The interpreter is faster than the compiler as he uses the code as soon as he reads the code. It is often used as a software debugging tool as it is able to use one line of code at a time. The interpreter is also more flexible than the compiler as an independent, can work between different hardware structures.

Assembler

An assembler is a translator used to translate compound language into machine language. It has the same function as the assembly language combination but works as an interpreter. Assembly language is difficult to understand as it is a low level planning language. The conjunction translates a sublime language, as a compound language into a subgroup, like machine code.

What are the types of translator in a co-constructor?

Translator is a programming language processor that changes a computer program from one language to another. It is required that the program be written in the source program and convert it into a machine program. It can detect and detect errors during translation.

There are different types of translators as follows –

• Compiler – Compiler is a program that translates advanced language (for example, C, C ++, and Java) into a basic language (object program or machine program). The facilitator converts high-level language into low-level language using a variety of categories. The customization of the characters entered by the customer goes through many stages of integration that will eventually provide the target language.
• Pre-Processor – Pre-Processor is a program that processes the source code before passing it on to the producer. It can perform under the control of so-called pre-processing command lines or instructions.
• Assembler – Composer is a translator that translates compound grammar into a computer programming language. Assembler provides a friendly representation of computers 0 and 1 that makes writing and reading programs easier.

Compiler reads a single-source source document document and creates an object document that combines machine instructions and archive data that supports the integration of various object files into a program.

• Crosses – Many compilation languages ​​support a “major” service where the main statement will translate into a sequence of vernacular statements and perhaps other major statements before they are translated into machine code. Therefore, a large center is an effective way to change the text.
• Linker – Linker is a computer program that connects and integrates multimedia files to create a usable file. All of these files may have been merged into a separate compiler. The task of coordinating the testing and detection of the module / processes identified in the program is to determine the memory location where these codes will be loaded making the program command complete reference.
• Uploader – Uploader is part of the framework and is responsible for uploading usable files to memory and using them. It can calculate system size (commands and data) and generate memory space. It can start a few registers to get started.

What does a translator do?

Translators usually do the following:

• Change concepts in the original language to the same concepts in the target language
• Speak, read, and write fluently in at least two languages, including English and one or more
• Relay style and tone
• Manage work schedules to meet deadlines
• Present spoken ideas accurately, quickly and clearly

Translators help to communicate by translating information from one language to another.

The goal of the translator is to make the people read the translation as if it were the original version. To do this, the translator must be able to write both flowing and paraphrase sentences, while keeping the ideas and facts from the source accurate. They must consider any cultural references, including slang, and other non-verbal expressions.

Translators must learn the original language well but may not need to speak it fluently. They usually translate only into their native language. Almost all of the translation work is done on a computer, and translators receive and send a large number of assignments electronically. The translation usually goes through a few updates before it is final. Translation services are needed in many different places. While these workers usually do not focus on any field or industry, many focus on one area of ​​expertise.

Do you qualify to be a translator?

Translators have different personalities. They are often inquisitive, that is, intelligent, curious, and curious. They are curious, organized, rational, analytical and rational. Some of them are also creative, which means they are creative, intelligent, sensitive, clear, and expressive.

 

What is the translator’s work like?

Translators usually work from home. They receive and submit their work electronically. They sometimes have to deal with the pressure of deadlines and tight plans. Because most translators are self-employed, their times are often varied, with limited work hours and long, irregular hours. However, most work full-time during normal business hours.

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Also, some tools provide solutions to connect team members, streamline smooth workflow, and manage the translation process, which directly benefits translation agencies and clients. Below is a list of 13 tools that translators should try at least once.

CAT Tools

1. SDL Trados Studio

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2. MemoQ

MemoQ is an excellent translation and local solution that meets the needs of all types of users, from businesses to translation agencies and translators. For businesses, MemoQ provides customized features such as project tracking, flexible workflow, automated quality checks, advanced reports and much more.

For translation agencies, they can benefit from the MemoQ translation platform that enhances translation and production processes. In addition, easy-to-use field display, powerful word management, and quick spell check features are highly appreciated by translators.

3. Memsource

Memsource is a cloud-based translation solution that utilizes artificial intelligence during the translation process to reduce translation costs. It is a combination of traditional translation technology and artificial intelligence technology. Before human translators work on a document, Memsource identifies content that can be automatically translated. This feature helps to increase the quality and speed of translation while reducing costs. Like other CAT Tools, Memsource also incorporates Translation Memory and Word Control features in its place.