Comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch

Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia (see Namibian Afrikaans); it is a separate standard language rather than a national variety, unlike Netherlands Dutch, Belgian Dutch, Indonesian Dutch, and Surinamese Dutch. An estimated 90 to 95% of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin, so there are few lexical differences between the two languages, however Afrikaans has considerably more regular morphology, grammar, and spelling.

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