A. Balbi försöker göra en första samlad översikt och indelning av Afrikas språk i Atlas ethnographique du globe ou classification des peuples anciens et modernes d'après leurs langues. Deumert, Ana (2002), "Standardization and social networks – The emergence and diffusion of standard Afrikaans", Standardization – Studies from the Germanic languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN 9027247471 , retrieved 29 May 2010

All obstruents at the ends of words are devoiced, so that e.g. a final /d/ is realized as [t]. [104]Adegbija, Efurosibina E. (1994), "Language Attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Sociolinguistic Overview", Multilingual Matters, ISBN 9781853592393 , retrieved 10 November 2008 Both French and San origins have been suggested for double negation in Afrikaans. While double negation is still found in Low Franconian dialects in West Flanders and in some "isolated" villages in the centre of the Netherlands (such as Garderen), it takes a different form, which is not found in Afrikaans. The following is an example:

Domínguez, Francesc; López, Núria (1995), Sociolinguistic and language planning organizations, John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN 9027219516 , retrieved 28 May 2010Greenberg flyttar ut de grupper som Lepsius och Meinhof felaktigt hade fört till de "hamitiska" språken och inordnar dem i andra familjer: så inordnas fulani i Niger-Kongospråken, nama bland khoisanspråken och "nilohamitiska" respektive nilotiska språk till en underfamilj av nilosahariska. Afrikaans-language cinema showed signs of new vigour in the early 21st century. The 2007 film Ouma se slim kind, the first full-length Afrikaans movie since Paljas in 1998, is seen as the dawn of a new era in Afrikaans cinema. Several short films have been created and more feature-length movies, such as Poena is Koning and Bakgat (both in 2008) have been produced, besides the 2011 Afrikaans-language film Skoonheid, which was the first Afrikaans film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival. The film Platteland was also released in 2011. [88] The Afrikaans film industry started gaining international recognition via the likes of big Afrikaans Hollywood film stars, like Charlize Theron ( Monster) and Sharlto Copley ( District 9) promoting their mother tongue. Afrikaans has two monuments erected in its honour. The first was erected in Burgersdorp, South Africa, in 1893, and the second, nowadays better-known Afrikaans Language Monument ( Afrikaanse Taalmonument), was built in Paarl, South Africa, in 1975. Gooskens, Charlotte (2007), "The Contribution of Linguistic Factors to the Intelligibility of Closely Related Languages" (PDF), Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Volume 28, Issue 6 November 2007, University of Groningen, pp.445–467, archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022 , retrieved 19 May 2010 Ethnologue report for Shona (S.10)". Archived from the original on 19 February 2015 . Retrieved 19 February 2015.