The name of which mammal comes from the Afrikaans for 'earth pig'?
Afrikaans South African English, such as ' ("pickup truck"), ' ("barbecue"), ' ("tangerine"), ' (American "sneakers", British "trainers", Canadian "runners"). A few words in standard English are derived from Afrikaans, such as "aardvark" (lit. "earth pig"), "trek" ("pioneering journey", in Afrikaans lit. "pull" but used also for "migrate"), "spoor" ("animal track"), ' ("Southern African grassland" in Afrikaans, lit. "field"), "commando" from Afrikaans ' meaning small fighting unit, ' ("tree snake") and ' ("segregation"; more accurately "apartness" or "the state or condition of being apart"). In 1976, secondary-school pupils in Soweto began a rebellion in response to the government's decision that Afrikaans
Comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch as English was perceived as being a greater threat to Afrikaans in South Africa than it was to Dutch in the Netherlands. While Dutch, like English, increasingly borrowed vocabulary from Latin or French, Afrikaans resisted such borrowing and instead favoured older Germanic equivalents, albeit with some exceptions; one of these is the Afrikaans word for "hospital", "hospitaal", which, while understood in Dutch, is less widely used than "ziekenhuis" (literally "sick house"). For example, the word for "magistrate" in Afrikaans, "landdros", comes from the Dutch term "landdrost", a legacy of the old court system of the Dutch Cape Colony which survived