Afrikaans is one of the official languages of South Africa. It is spoken in most parts of the country. There are 5,983,426 (13.35 %) first language speakers of Afrikaans [2001 census data] in South Africa.

The following characters with diacritics are used in Afrikaans:

Char. Keystroke 1 Keystroke 2 Unicode Char. Keystroke 1 Keystroke 2 Unicode á Alt+0225 Alt+160 00E1 Á Alt+0193 - 00C1 â Alt+0226 Alt+131 00E2 Â Alt+0194 - 00C2 è Alt+0232 Alt+138 00E8 È Alt+0200 - 00C8 é Alt+0233 Alt+130 00E9 É Alt+0201 Alt+144 00C9 ê Alt+0234 Alt+136 00EA Ê Alt+0202 - 00CA ë Alt+0235 Alt+137 00EB Ë Alt+0203 - 00CB î Alt+0238 Alt+140 00EE Î Alt+0206 - 00CE ï Alt+0239 Alt+139 00EF Ï Alt+0207 - 00CF ô Alt+0244 Alt+147 00F4 Ô Alt+0212 - 00D4 ö Alt+0246 Alt+148 00F6 Ö Alt+0214 Alt+153 00D6 û Alt+0251 - 00FB Û Alt+0219 - 00DB

All of these characters are represented in the Windows-1252 and ISO 8859-1 character sets.

Online dictionaries / Electronic dictionaries

Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls

Pharos Dictionaries Online / Pharos Woordeboeke Aanlyn Over 20 titles online.

WAT Aanlyn (Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal)

Online Afrikaans to English and English to Afrikaans dictionary

Afrikaanse Internetterme (Afrikaans Internet terms)

Books

HAT (Verklarende Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal) (FF Odendal & RH Gouws).
("'n Omvattende verklarende Afrikaanse woordeboek met betekenisomskrywings")
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Afrikaans-Engels/Engels-Afrikaans Woordeboek
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Oxford Afrikaans-Engels English-Afrikaans Skoolwoordeboek School Dictionary. "Designed to enable learners to write and speak effectively and competently in their additional language, this up-to-date and easy-to-use dictionary focuses on overcoming learners' most common difficulties."
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South African Oxford Multilingual Primary Dictionary (Nguni) (OUPSA)
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South African Oxford Multilingual Primary Dictionary (Sotho) (OUPSA)
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Books / Dictionaries

Beknopte Verklarende Woordeboek
'The dictionary has been augmented with a supplement of more than 1000 new Afrikaans words and words that have not previously been included in either the Beknop or its elder sibling, the Verklarende Afrikaanse Woordeboek.'

Aanleerderswoordeboek / Learner's Dictionary

Miscellaneous

www.afrikaans.us
Learn Afrikaans Online for free

woes.co.za
"Kreatiewe platform vir Afrikaans" - promotes the Afrikaans language with articles, short stories, poetry etc.

grapgat.co.za
Afrikaans jokes web site.

Projects

Afrikaans Language Interface Pack for Windows XP
A partial Afrikaans translation of Windows XP.

http://www.translate.org.za/
A non-profit organization translating various OpenSource software packages such as OpenOffice.org and the Mozilla web browser into all official South African languages. They have released isiZulu, Sesotho sa Leboa and Afrikaans versions of OpenOffice.

Die Afrikaanse Wikipedia

Miscellaneous

Google in Afrikaans