1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Bulgaria, European Union
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
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Macedonian language
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
hallo
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
3.2 Thank You
Dankie
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Как си? (Kak si?)
3.4 Good Night
goeie nag
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
jammer
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
3.10 Bye
Not Available
Довиждане (Doviždane)
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Обичам те (Običam te)
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Panagyurishte
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 million7.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million7.80 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
български (bãlgarski)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Bulgarian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Bulgarian Sign Language
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
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology