How Many Dutch Speakers In South Africa

What is a Dutch Speaker?

Dutch also known as Netherlandic or Netherlandish, is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English.

How Many Dutch Speakers In South Africa?

Are there Dutch speakers in South Africa?

Most people in South Africa speak one or two official languages, except for about two percent. For 15 years (1910-1925), the two official languages in South Africa were English and Dutch.

Afrikaans became a part of Dutch in 1925 but it later replaced Dutch, as the latter was no longer used.

Do Dutch people live in South Africa?

[1] In what follows, I give a thumbnail sketch of these two histories, and also briefly illustrate when and how they intersected and influenced one another. 

Dutch has been present in South Africa since the establishment in 1652 of the first permanent Dutch settlement around what is now Cape Town.

Where do the Dutch live in South Africa?

Dutch and Afrikaans place names are still found across South Africa, from Kaapstad (Cape Town) and Stellenbosch in the Cape to Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the interior. The settlers from the Low Countries did not only bring their language with them.

How many Dutch migrated to South Africa?

Another wave of Dutch immigration to South Africa occurred in the wake of World War II when many Dutch citizens were moving abroad to escape housing shortages and depressed economic opportunities at home. South Africa registered a net gain of 45,000 Dutch immigrants between 1950 and 2001.