Afrikaaner in the context of "Ethnic groups of Africa"

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⭐ Core Definition: Afrikaaner

Afrikaners (Afrikaans: [afriˈkɑːnərs]) are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers who first arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. Until 1994, they dominated South Africa's politics as well as the country's commercial and agricultural sector.

Afrikaans, a language which evolved from the Dutch dialect of South Holland, is the mother tongue of Afrikaners and most Cape Coloureds. According to the South African National Census of 2022, 10.6% of South Africans claimed to speak Afrikaans as a first language at home, making it the country's third-largest home language after Zulu and Xhosa.

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👉 Afrikaaner in the context of Ethnic groups of Africa

The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic, Khoisan, Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan populations.

The official population count of the various ethnic groups in Africa is highly uncertain due to limited infrastructure to perform censuses, and due to rapid population growth. Some groups have alleged that there is deliberate misreporting in order to give selected ethnicities numerical superiority (as in the case of Nigeria's Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo peoples).

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← Ethnic groups of Africa ← List of ethnic groups of Africa ← Ethnic groups in Africa ← Africans
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Southern Africa → Ethnic group → Dutch people → Settler colonialism → Cape of Good Hope → Free Burghers in the Dutch Cape Colony → South Africa → Afrikaans → Hollandic Dutch → South Holland → First language → Cape Coloureds → 2022 South African census → Zulu language → Xhosa language →