# Afrikaans Language

Skill · Languages

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/afrikaans-language

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that evolved from 17th-century Dutch spoken by settlers in the Cape Colony of southern Africa, incorporating influences from Malay, Khoisan languages, Portuguese, and indigenous African languages. It is one of South Africa's official languages and is also spoken in Namibia, primarily by Afrikaner and Cape Coloured communities. Learners are often drawn to it for its relatively simple grammar and close relationship to Dutch and English.

Related skills: [English Language](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/english-language), [German Language](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/german-language), [Dutch Language](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/dutch-language), [Linguistics](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/linguistics)

## Open roles requiring Afrikaans Language (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.