Boeraans

Boeraans is a dialect of Afrikaans which is one of the 11 official languages in South Africa, and is one of the youngest Germanic languages with official status and it is only spoken in South Africa.

The website https://boervolk.co.za/wp uses the Boeraans dialect. If you are an Afrikaner, you will notice very quickly that there is a big difference between the two dialects.

We do not use the C, Q or V in our dialect. Here are a few examples of words that is different:

Afrikaans - Ons sal môre oggend om  vyf  uur opstaan.

Boeraans - Ons sal môre oggend om  fyf  uur opstaan.

English - We will wake up tomorrow at  five  o'clock.

Afrikaans - Die meeste Afrikaners is van die  Calvinistiese  kerke.

Boeraans - Die meeste Afrikaners is fan die  Kalfinistiese  kerk.

English - Most Afrikaners is from the  Calvinistic  Churches.

If you are an Afrikaans speaking person, the change looks strange, but there are a few of the Boers who adapted the spelling. Many Afrikaners will quickly point out that you are spelling wrong, and point you to the "correct" spelling, but what is the "correct" spelling? The ones that linguists teach you, or the ones that the people use?

Boeraans is a more friendly dialect in the sense that even a young child can easily master it. How do you teach a child which words should have a V and which should have an F if both letters have the same pronunciation?

It is precisely for this reason that it was decided to use the F and to use the V only in names that contain a V. Boeraans was also known as "Die Taal" (meaning "The Language). The Border Boers moved from the Western Cape to the Eastern Cape, and stayed there.

In 1820, the Boers moved to the region known as the Free State Province in South Africa and Transvaal (now the provinces of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and a part of North West) in South Africa.