Spanspek refers to Cantaloupe, an orange-fleshed melon. Spanspek comes from the Afrikaans "Spaanse spek", meaning "Spanish bacon". It was told that Juana Smith, the Spanish wife of 19th-century Cape governer Harry Smith, insisted on eating melon instead of bacon for breakfast, causing her bemused Afrikaans-speaking servants to invent the word Spanspek. Spanspek is pronounced "spun-speck". Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that descended from Dutch and spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia by about 10 million people.