1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Dehina newot?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
melkam meshe't
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
i'ndemin walu
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
i'ndemin adäru
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
afekirishalehu
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Gojjami
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million18.70 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million10.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
13th century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Ge'ez
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Amharic
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Amharic
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology