'''Boers''' are [[African|Africans]] whose ancestors are mainly [[Dutch]], Huguenots and [[Germans]].
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'''Boers''' are an [[Afrikaans]]-speaking people whose ancestors are mainly [[Dutch]], Huguenots and [[Germans]]. Boers are also commonly called "Afrikaner-Boers", "Boere-Afrikaners" or sometimes merely "Afrikaners", this last desegnation is sometimes confusing, becuase they should not be confused with the larger Afrikaans-speaking ethnic group in South Africa, also commonly called the [[Afrikaners]].