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Date: 1800-1900
Language: Afrikaans
Origin: 'African', from Latin africanus

Afrikaner

 noun
     
Related topics: Nationality and Race
Af‧ri‧ka‧ner [countable]
SAN a white South African whose first language is Afrikaans and who is usually related to the Dutch people who settled in South Africa in the 1600s [↪ Boer]
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