South African Dutchadj.n.
/saʊθ ˌafrᵻk(ə)n ˈdʌtʃ/, U.S. /ˌsaʊθ ˌæfrək(ə)n ˈdətʃ/ Now chiefly historical.
A. adj.
Of or relating to the early Dutch settlers in South Africa, or their language (see note at sense B. 1); (in later use also occasionally) = Afrikaans adj. See also Dutch adj. 2b.
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South African Dutch1849
Afrikaans1914
1849 Corps Papers (Royal Engineers & E. India Company's Engineers) No. 2. 230 The extensive emigration of the South African Dutch farmers (Boers) from the colony of the Cape of Good Hope into the interior.
1888 J. S. Moffat Lives Robert & Mary Moffat (ed. 2) xli. 463 A plentiful mixture of such terse and biting missiles of invective as greatly enrich the South African Dutch language.
1919 World's Work Apr. (frontispiece) The South African Dutch soldier and statesman who led a Boer army against the British in the Boer War.
2004 L. J. Gill Remembering Regiment vi. 54 He was a member of the Enslin family from Sixty-four, an area near Eldoret inhabited mainly by settlers of South African Dutch ancestry.
2006 V. Khatri Endangered Animals of World i. 9 ‘Aardwolf’ is the Afrikaans (South African Dutch) word for ‘earth wolf’.
B. n.
1. The variety of Dutch spoken by early Dutch settlers in South Africa and their descendants; (in later use also occasionally) = Afrikaans n. See also Dutch n.1 2c.As a language name, South African Dutch typically denotes Dutch as used in South Africa up to approximately 1875, while Afrikaans denotes the later language.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Dutch > Afrikaans
Dutch1731
Cape Dutch1826
South African Dutch1871
kitchen Dutch1880
Afrikaans1885
Afrikander1886
taal1896
1871 J. Mackenzie Ten Years North of Orange River i. 7 I had followed only too strictly the rules given in the Grammar, from which South African Dutch has considerably departed.
1921 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 2) 417 As in Jersey Dutch and in South African Dutch there has been a decay of inflections.
1990 R. O. Collins Central & S. Afr. Hist. (2000) 128/1 When infused with elements from French, German, English, and African languages, South African Dutch gradually evolved into the Afrikaans language of today.
2006 A. M. T. Bosman et al. in R. M. Joshi & P. G. Aaron Handbk. Orthogr. & Literacy ix. 135 Despite the name and its historical relation to Dutch, Afrikaans or South-African Dutch has been a separate language since the 19th century.
2. With plural agreement. With the. South Africans of Dutch ancestry, considered collectively. Cf. Afrikaner n. 2.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > Afrikaner > collectively
the Dutch1731
Boerdom1858
South African Dutch1877
volk1880
Amabhunu1883
Afrikanerdom1900
1877 Times 13 Feb. 9/5 The South African Dutch a quarter of a century ago were most unwilling to quit the shelter of the British flag.
1919 F. E. M. Young Shadow of Past xxxiv. 304 The South African Dutch would not submit to being ruled any longer by the pestilential English.
1947 Rotarian Mar. 38/2 The ‘Great Trek’ which the South African Dutch made from the Cape Colony into the unknown interior in 1836.
2003 P. Cheah Spectral Nationality vi. 301 A privative nationalism modelled after the oligarchic nationalism of the South African Dutch.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1849