Botswana

Eswatini

Lesotho

Namibia

South Africa

South Africa:

Afrikaans, formerly also known as Cape Dutch or Colonial Dutch, is one of the eleven official languages of the Republic of South Africa and a recognised minority language and lingua franca in Namibia. It belongs to the West Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages and developed from the Nine Dutch of the 17th century. Compared to the modern Dutch standard language, Afrikaans has undergone considerable morphological simplifications and unifications. Originally, it was the language of the Boers, while today the majority of Afrikaans speakers are so-called coloureds.