28. Afrikaans, one of the two official languages of South Africa at the time of the novel's writing (English being the other) is most heavily concentrated in the northern region of the country. From which European language did Afrikaans develop?
From Quiz Cry, the Beloved Country
Answer:
Dutch
There were two groups of Europeans who came to South Africa in the colonial days, the English and the Dutch. Eventually the English (who occupied the southern parts of South Africa) came to defeat the northern Dutch (Boers) and gain control of the entire area. Afrikaans evolved out of an older form of Dutch, and it is still possible for speakers of modern Dutch and Afrikaans to make one another understood with relative ease.
There is a similar, though older, relationship between English and German. In fact, Dutch, English, Afrikaans, and German are all Germanic languages. Italian is more distantly related to all the other named languages, being one of the Romance landguance, descended form Latin, though they are all Indo-European languages.