Afrikaners

Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers
Intangible ethnic_group Q385799
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Afrikaners

Summary

Afrikaners is an ethnic group[1]. Afrikaners ranks in the top 0.91% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,947 views/month, #41 of 4,529).[2]

Key Facts

  • Afrikaners's religion is recorded as Protestantism[3].
  • Afrikaners's instance of is recorded as ethnic group[4].
  • Afrikaners's ancestral home is recorded as Netherlands[5].
  • Afrikaners's flag is recorded as Vryheidsvlag[6].
  • Afrikaners is a type of Dutch[7].
  • Afrikaners is a type of White Africans of European ancestry[8].
  • Afrikaners is part of Dutch diaspora[9].
  • Afrikaners's Commons category is recorded as Afrikaners[10].
  • Afrikaners's said to be the same as is recorded as Boer[11].
  • Afrikaners's foods traditionally associated is recorded as Dutch cuisine[12].
  • Afrikaners's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Afrikaner people[13].
  • Afrikaners's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[14].
  • Afrikaners's described by source is recorded as National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[15].
  • Afrikaners's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[16].
  • Afrikaners's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • Afrikaners's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • Afrikaners's different from is recorded as Afrikander[19].
  • Afrikaners's history of topic is recorded as Dutch East India Company[20].
  • Afrikaners's culture is recorded as Dutch culture[21].
  • Afrikaners's has part is recorded as Batavophone[22].
  • Afrikaners's language used is recorded as Afrikaans[23].
  • Afrikaners's language used is recorded as Dutch[24].

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Definition and Type

Afrikaners's instance of is recorded as ethnic group[4]. Recorded subclass of include Dutch[7] and White Africans of European ancestry[8].

Use and Application

Afrikaners is part of Dutch diaspora[9].

Why It Matters

Afrikaners ranks in the top 0.91% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,947 views/month, #41 of 4,529).[2] Afrikaners has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Afrikaners is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    History of topic Dutch East India Company
    Different from Afrikander
    Flag Vryheidsvlag
    Subclass of Dutch, White Africans of European ancestry
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 24092, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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