10 Interesting Facts about Afrikaans

4. Although based on Dutch, Afrikaans has been influenced by a variety of languages

The development of Afrikaans was influenced by the languages of people brought to South Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. These included Malay, Portuguese, French, German, the now mostly extinct Khoisan languages, varieties of Bantu (mostly Xhosa and Zulu), Scottish, Yiddish, and South African English.