Monument (Afrikaans Edition)

The highest of the three is approximately 13,5m high.

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In , the Dutch United East India Company, or the VOC, established a refreshment station at the Cape to provide fresh products to passing ships on their journeys to and from the East. The VOC had a very strict language policy, with Dutch as the preferred language, and the officials mainly spoke High Dutch. The sailors and soldiers came from different European countries, including the Netherlands, Germany, France and the Scandinavian countries, but were obliged to speak Dutch.

They therefore spoke a simplified form of it, known as 17th century Dutch. The wall on the stairway of the monument represents the influence of Indonesian languages mainly Malay on the development of Afrikaans.

Since Malay is from the East, the wall has been placed between the curves of Western Europe and Africa as a separate entity. Yet it forms a unity with the two forces of Western Europe and Africa that merge to form the bridge that symbolically depicts the root, the roots of Afrikaans. Muslim slave children received religious education in their own spoken language, later known as Cape Afrikaans, but used the Arabic script for writing. Special symbols were therefore developed by Abu Bakr Effendi and other Muslim clergymen to represent certain Afrikaans sounds phonetically in the Arabic alphabet.

Between and , at least 78 books were printed in Arabic-written Afrikaans. This stage and three domes on the right represent the influence of the Khoikhoi and other African languages, including isiXhosa, isiZulu and Sesotho, on the development of Afrikaans, and represent the southern tip of Africa. These structures are placed in such a way that they form a curve that joins the main line that is, Afrikaans , and so completes the circle.

Do you see how the curves come together to form a bridge? NP van Wyk Louw, the one author that inspired the architect, wrote that Afrikaans has one foot in Africa and the other in Europe, meaning that the language has its origins in both continents.

He then describes Afrikaans as a bridge between the languages of Europe and Africa.

The highest column about 57m high symbolises the growth of Afrikaans and is open at the top. The rising edge of the main wall has a series of openings through which the alternating light and sunrays create magical light patterns on the inside. Next to the main column, in the pool, is another column approximately 26m high depicting the Republic of South Africa, the birthplace of Afrikaans.

The column is open to Africa to indicate that an interaction between Afrikaans, South Africa and Africa continually takes place as it has developed into a fully-fledged and independent indigenous language in Africa. The building work on the monument lasted two years from to and cost R The monument had to blend in with the environment and was thus constructed with a special concrete mix consisting of cement, white sand and Paarl granite.

The Afrikaans Language Monument should be seen as a sculpture rather than an architectural work. There are elements of the Brutalist style in the structure, and the use of raw concrete is a worldwide feature of monuments dating back to the last half of the 20th century.

The architect of the monument, Jan van Wijk, died in Of all the projects that Jan took on in his life, his magnum opus, the Language Monument, was the closest to his heart. It is therefore appropriate that his ashes were cemented into a granite boulder here, in the same boulder next to which he and his wife lingered on a day in when they explored the mountain in preparation for his design. Archived from the original on 4 June Retrieved 28 November The Afrikaans Language Monument, Paarl.

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Awesome experience, great hiking trails, nice braai spots but most of all amazing! It is an absolute must if you like languages. Afrikaans is the most modern language and is actually spoken by a larger number of people as first language across all races than you will expect. Interesting vegetation and park.

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