@Luigi, not exactly. A brief history (that could be debated). It's a language that developed because there were basically more slaves than settlers at one stage in the Cape Colony. This diverse group of people needed to communicate with each other and slaves often spoke one or many colonial languages (Dutch, French, Portugues etc.) and so this new 'Kitchen Dutch' or Afrikaans was born (a mixture of it all). This new language thus developed with a basis of 17th-century Dutch, mixed with some French and German, as well as African and Asian sounds and words in between (I'm discovering more and more about the origins of Afrikaans as I travel the world) and some words from the indigenous Khoisan people still survive in our Language to this day (gogga - insect). A diverse group of people still speak Afrikaans today.

Fun (and random) facts: Afrikaans basically means "African People" in Dutch

The Afrikaans word for banana is almost the same as in Malaysia/Indonesia - Pisang / Piesang 😅🍌

@Chanté

I'm probably wrong, but I'll ask anyway: Isn't Afrikaans the Dutch language that colonizers brought to South Africa a few centuries ago? Isn't it basically a variety or a dialect of this tongue?

@Chanté
Thanks for your answer. So, Afrikaans is basically a creole, right? Like Papiamento, Reunionese, Jamaican, etc.

Afrikaans started off as Dutch and eventually became its own language.