Talk:Afrikaans

Geographic distribution
Is it relevant to point out that there are 36 speakers in Mauritius and 122 in Finland? I think we should stick to countries that have at least 1,000 speakers on the table. 2600:1702:6D0:5160:59CC:F3DA:7940:1F39 (talk) 01:51, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

@ 41.198.147.59 (talk) 07:53, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure there aren't 54 million native speakers — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A03F:8185:5900:D539:399:882D:11D7 (talk) 14:24, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Error(s) with respect to diminutive forms
The current article text contains:

”The diminutive suffix in Afrikaans is -tjie, -djie or -ie, whereas in Dutch it is -tje or dje, hence a "bit" is ŉ bietjie in Afrikaans and beetje in Dutch.”

This contains certainly one error and probably several errors.


 * There is definitely no Dutch diminutive suffix form “-dje”. If “dje” occurs as the last part of a diminutive form, the “d” is part of the root of the word, e.g. liedje, lidje, leedje, ledje, meidje, stuudje, studje, huidje, bloedje, broodje, bodje, woudje, paadje, padje, deugdje, voogdje, maagdje, smaragdje, schildje, beeldje, speldje, schuldje, koboldje, naaldje, wereldje, beemdje, hemdje, vriendje, kindje, eendje, endje, eindje, rundje, hondje, maandje, mandje, duizendje, zwoerdje, lieverdje, nerdje, boordje, bordje, gaardje, gardje, honderdje, etc.


 * The rules for the Dutch diminutive forms are moderately complicated. Suffice it to say that the diminutive suffix surfaces as one of (only) five forms: -je, -pje, -tje, -kje and -etje.


 * According to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ie#Afrikaans, Afrikaans similarly has: -jie, -pie, -tjie, -kie and -etjie. Under the assumption that this is the full list of forms, “-ie” and “-djie” are not diminutive forms.

Who can confirm the Afrikaans diminutive forms?Redav (talk) 12:16, 13 July 2024 (UTC)