What is the connection between the Dutch language and Afrikaans?

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Afrikaans is a direct descendant of 17th-century Dutch, developed in South Africa by Dutch colonists and other settlers, resulting in high mutual intelligibility, especially in writing, though Afrikaans has a simplified grammar, different sound system, and loanwords from various other languages. While...
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Afrikaans is a direct descendant of 17th-century Dutch, developed in South Africa by Dutch colonists and other settlers, resulting in high mutual intelligibility, especially in writing, though Afrikaans has a simplified grammar, different sound system, and loanwords from various other languages. While Dutch is an Old World language, Afrikaans is the youngest attested Germanic language, born and evolving in the Dutch Cape Colony. read less
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