Afrikaans Scrabble

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	Afrikaans	Afrikaans
Letter	Value	Number
A	1	9
B	8	1
D	1	6
E	1	16
F	8	1
G	2	4
H	2	3
I	1	8
J	10	1
K	3	3
L	2	3
M	4	2
N	1	8
O	1	6
P	5	2
R	1	6
S	1	6
T	1	6
U	4	2
V	5	2
W	3	3
Y	4	2
Blank	0	2
Total		102

I wonder if there was a mistake in the Afrikaans information in the Spear's database? I find it hard to believe there is no 'Z' in the language. Perhaps someone who knows for sure could email me and confirm this? I mean, what does the 'Z' in .za stand for? How do they spell 'Zulu'???! Admittedly it does look from looking at some web pages that only loan-words contain a 'Z' and it may be that since foreign words are banned in Scrabble, there is no acceptable use of the 'Z' in play?

Gideon Pretorius  wrote:
> On your website (http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/details/afrikaans/ to be
> precise) you ask that somebody confirm that there is no Z in the Afrikaans
> version of the game. I can confirm that as I own a set.
>
> Reasons for this could be:
> * in the 1981 publication of the official dictionary of the afrikaans
> language (consisting of 1378 pages) only half a page is dedicated to the
> letter Z.
> * use one of the blank blocks should you need to use a Z.

Geo also tells me that the closest thing to an official dictionary for Scrabble would be the "Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal".

Links:
Paarl A local Scrabble club in the town of Paarl (a town in Cape Province) which meets on the 1st Thursday of every month. It's quite appropriate that this town would have a scrabble club, as it also contains a monument to the Afrikaans language (The Taalmonument).
Dutch Scrabble
Ispell dictionaries
Afrikaans Ispell
Oxford Wordlists
Copy of above ("afr_dbf")
Online dictionaries
SANSPA (English Scrabble in South Africa)

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