Oorlams (also: Oorlands, Oorlans) is a dialect of Afrikaans spoken in the Republic of South Africa and Namibia, by the Oorlam people.

It is considered to be either an Afrikaans-based creole language or a dialect of Afrikaans proper.

Oorlams has many elements from Khoi languages.

References

Official

Sotho–Tswana	Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa) Southern Sotho (Sesotho) Tswana (Setswana)
Nguni	Southern Ndebele (isiNdebele) Swazi (siSwati) Xhosa (isiXhosa) Zulu (isiZulu)
Tswa–Ronga	Tsonga (Xitsonga)
Venda	Venda (Tshivenḓa)

Recognised
unofficial languages
mentioned in the
1996 constitution

Indigenous	Bhaca Khoe Khoisan Lala Lozi Nama Nhlangwini Northern Ndebele Phuthi Tuu
Foreign	German Greek Gujarati Hindi Portuguese Malay (historical) Tamil Telugu Urdu
Religious	Arabic Hebrew Sanskrit

Other

LGBT slang	Gayle IsiNgqumo
Other	Tsotsitaal and Camtho Oorlams Creole Fanagalo Pretoria Sotho Scamto SA Sign Language Angloromani Kaaps

See also