Afrikaans language in macOS (Autocorrect & Grammar)

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Driving me insane, I am unable to add Afrikaans as an input on the keyboard yet the language is selected in the region settings.

Help please.

I cannot communicate via any medium (WhatsApp, Email, Slack, etc.) without the Mac changing or deleting words when I try to talk my native tongue.

Know your god damn audience, ffs, Tim Apple.

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I just disabled autocorrect altogether... also annoying when you have a lot of slang / tech lingo and it really wants to correct it into something else.
Not worried about spelling / grammar check in Afrikaans as I never write Afrikaans formally.
 
I wish the Afrikaans dictionary was available on iOS lol, throwing up a third party keyboard just for occasional convenience is ugh
 
ronald911 said:
I just disabled autocorrect altogether... also annoying when you have a lot of slang / tech lingo and it really wants to correct it into something else.
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Same - it annoys me in any language.
 
These may help some of you guys:

https://github.com/afischer/osx-dictionaries

I have been using these for a couple of years… use the afr-eng.dictionary and eng-afr.dictionary Dictionaries; they seem somewhat more complete.

As an aside:

To add more System Languages to your Mac (i.e. those you can choose as Languages from System Preferences → Keyboard → Text → Spelling) add your af_ZA.aff and af_ZA.dic files in ~/Library/Spelling/. Still works fine on macOS 12.
 
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ArmatageShanks said:
Lyk my jy hou van sukkel

My brain just goes yeah no fsck that everytime @Rouxenator posts a screenshot with text in it
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You know, if you walk up to a computer in France, Italy or Germany, the chances are extremely slim it will be in English with a US Intl keyboard.

While we are stuck with the later due to... reasons... there is no need for us to use English as the default language. Initially few applications supported Afrikaans, but since Windows 10 you can get your computer talking your language - give it a try.
 
Rouxenator said:
You know, if you walk up to a computer in France, Italy or Germany, the chances are extremely slim it will be in English with a US Intl keyboard.

While we are stuck with the later due to... reasons... there is no need for us to use English as the default language. Initially few applications supported Afrikaans, but since Windows 10 you can get your computer talking your language - give it a try.
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Too much of a learning curve for me though
 
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