Afrikaans was born in the kitchen translation demands of enslavement.

Evidence

There are larger linguistic ironies at work here. The creole language that would later be consolidated into Afrikaans emerged as much in the kitchen to enable enslaved women to communicate with the wives of those owning them as around the campfires of the frontier. A very large percentage of burgher (citizen) households owned at least a small amount of slaves, who pretty much serviced the entire household economy from cleaning and cooking to childrearing and market-shopping. In these originating linguistic sites the language of apartheid was born in the demands of cultural translation. If post-apartheid South Africa has a lingua franca, an indigenously prompted language more or less universally available to its heterogeneous population, it may now be Afrikaans rather than – or at least alongside and interactive with – the more globally prompted commercial and administrative univeralism of English. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1337 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Afrikaans was born from enslaved women’s kitchen communication with their owners. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1337; Afrikaans was born in enslaved women’s kitchens as a language of cultural translation — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1337

Broader Connections

• Afrikaans was born in enslaved women’s kitchens as a language of cultural translation #expands (0.93) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1337