Image: AfrikaanseTaalmonumentEnscriptions

Description: Enscription on a plaque in front of the Afrikaans Language Monument, near Paarl, South Africa. Translation of inscription Afrikaans is the language that links western Europe and Africa... it forms a bridge between the great bright west and the majestical Africa... and what greatness can sprout from this union...this may be what Afrikaans is destined to discover, but what we should never forget is that these changes of land and landscape sharpened, kneaded and knitted this new language..and in this fashion it became possible for Afrikaans to be spoken throughout this country...Our task is in the use that we make, and shall make of this tool -- N.P. van Wyk Louw If we plant a row of poles down this hall now, ten poles, to represent the last ten years, and on each pole we make a mark at a height from the floor corresponding to the relative written use of Afrikaans in the respective year, and we draw a line, from the first here near the floor to the last over there against the loft, then the line would describe a rapidly rising arc, not only quickly rising, but rising in a quickly increasing manner. Let us now, in our imagination, extend the arc for the ten coming years from now. See you, sirs, where the point shall be, outside in the blue sky high over Bloemfontein, in the year 1924. -- C.J. Langenhoven
Title: AfrikaanseTaalmonumentEnscriptions
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