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.
It is the first language of most of the Afrikaner and Coloured people of Southern Africa. Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages, including Portuguese, the Bantu languages, Malay, German and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of Afrikaans vocabulary is of Dutch origin.he main Afrikaans dictionary is the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT) (Dictionary of the Afrikaans Language), which is as yet incomplete owing to the scale of the project, but the one-volume dictionary in household use is the Verklarende Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (HAT).