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English: Map showing the proportion of the South African population that speaks a West Germanic group language (English or Afrikaans) at home, from the 2001 census broken down to "Main Place" level. 0–20%
Statistics South Africa's Census 2011 is the source of the basic population data. The map results from my own processing of the data. For ward boundaries see File:South Africa electoral wards 2011 blank.svg. Author: Htonl
Mostly originating from different waves of immigration during the 19th and 20th centuries, an estimated 12,000 people speak German or a German variety as a first language in South Africa. [23] Germans settled quite extensively in South Africa, with many Calvinists immigrating from Northern Europe.
English: Density of people in South Africa who speak a West Germanic language (i.e. English or Afrikaans) as their first language, according to Census 2011 at electoral ward level. <1 speaker/km² 1–3 speakers/km²
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The party was made up of 90 settlers, most of them were Dutch & a number of people were from Germany. [1] In the 1680s, more German farmers and women arrived at Cape Colony. In 1691, the population was 1000 Europeans especially Dutch (85%), German (5%) & Huguenots (10%) and 400 slaves. From this point onwards the white population increased to ...
These countries (with the addition of South Tyrol of Italy) also form the Council for German Orthography and are referred to as the German Sprachraum (German language area). Since 2004, Meetings of German-speaking countries have been held annually with six participants: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland: [1]
German is slowly disappearing elsewhere, but a number of communities still have a large number of speakers and some even have German language schools. Around 17,000 German Nationals lived in South Africa in 2020.