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Afrikaans alphabet and characters
The Afrikaans alphabet should display only the following characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font support Germanic languages.
Lower-case characters:
Upper-case characters
Afrikaans grammar rules
Nouns
Afrikaans nouns have no gender.
There are two numbers (singular and plural), definite and indefinite article.
Verbs
Afrikaans formatting rules
Date formats
| Short date format | yyy-MM-dd |
| e.g. 2016-03-17 | |
| Long date format | dd MMMM yyyy or yyyy-MM-dd |
| e.g. 17 March 2011 or 2011-03-17 |
Numbers and currency
Afrikaans capitalisation usage
Should be capitalised
- People’s names.
- Geographical names (of countries, counties/states, cities etc.).
- Headings/titles and column/row headings should start with a capital letter unless a proper noun is featured.
- Product names follow the source capitalisation.
- Always use uppercase at the beginning of each module descriptor title: “Start | Geavanceerd zoeken | Mijn voorkeuren | Site aanmelden | Help”.
- Always use uppercase for each descriptor of a graphic for functional element (“Klik op de knop Zoeken”, “Klik op het tabblad Opties”).
- Always use uppercase when referring to UI elements: “Kies een provincie uit de lijst en klik op Zoeken.” and to keys (T, Shift, Alt), key combinations should be rewritten using the plus sign (+): “Ctrl+C”.
- The first word following a colon should not be written with a capital, unless there is more than one sentence after the colon. In that case, the first word should be written with a capital.
Should NOT be capitalised
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