White South African is a term which refers to people from South Africa who are of European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent and who do not regard themselves, or are not regarded as, being part of another racial group, for example, as Coloured. In linguistic, cultural and historical terms, they are generally divided into the Afrikaans-speaking descendants of mainly Dutch, German and French settlers, known as Afrikaners, and the Anglophone descendants of mainly British and Irish settlers. South Africa's white population is divided into 61% Afrikaans-speakers, 36% English-speakers, and 3% who speak another language, such as Portuguese. White South Africans are by far the largest European-descended population group in Africa.White South Africans differ significantly from other white African groups, due to not only their much larger population, but because they have developed nationhood, as in the case of the Afrikaners, who established a distinct language, culture and faith in Africa.
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