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Afrikaans is an Indo-European language spoken mainly in South Africa by about 10 million speakers. Afrikaans and Dutch are to a very large extent mutually intelligible, although they have separate spelling standards.
Download our free dictionary (for Windows) and browse both the Afrikaans-English and the English-Afrikaans lists. Look up a word, add or modify an entry, and learn words at your own rhythm from a personal learning list. Click here to learn more about the features or scroll down to download the program. An online version is also available, so you can browse the dictionary without downloading it.
Many thanks to Jon McKenna for the last updates, and also to Adam, Willem and Ettore for sending us their lists.
List status: © Freelang / Jon McKenna
Afrikaans > English: 11,265 words
English > Afrikaans: 12,093 words
Last update: January 17, 2011
First upload: 1997
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