Disk manufacture. 1  1 First, the recording media (Mylar), in the form of stock roll, is coated with an extremely fine layer of iron oxide. 2  2 Next, the coated film is slit and appropriate size disks are punched out with an automatic device similar to a cookie cutter.
Afrikaans is a Low Franconian West Germanic language descended from Dutch and spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia. There are also speakers of Afrikaans in Australia, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Germany, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK, the USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe.peakers of Afrikaans can understand Dutch, though Dutch speakers tend to need a while to tune into Afrikaans. From about 1815 Afrikaans started to replace Malay as the language of instruction in Muslim schools in South Africa.
Afrikaans is also spoken in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia. The name Afrikaans means âAfricanâ in Dutch. It was originally used by the Dutch settlers and indentured workers brought to the Cape area in southwestern South Africa by the Dutch East India Company between 1652 and 1705. Afrikaans is spoken by 20,000 people in Botswana where it has no official status (Ethnologue). 2  Namibia. 3  Afrikaans is spoken in Namibia by 90,000 people (Ethnologue). 4  It has had constitutional recognition as a national language since independence in 1990.