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'''Afrikaans''' is the language of the Afrikaners (and Cape Coloureds) of [[South Africa]], who form about 56% of that country's Caucasian population. It is derived from 17th century High Dutch and [[German]], as well as acquiring its mandatory double negative from [[French]] (the double negative was absent in both German and High Dutch).
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'''Afrikaans''' is the language of the Afrikaners (and Cape Coloureds) of [[South Africa]], who form about 56% of that country's Caucasian population. It is derived from 17th century [[Dutch language|High Dutch]] and [[German language|German]], as well as acquiring its mandatory double negative from [[French language|French]] (the double negative was absent in both German and High Dutch).
    
It has also borrowed words from Malay and English.  
 
It has also borrowed words from Malay and English.  
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