1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Serbain and Bosnian
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
Church Slavonic
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?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Ispričavam se
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Chakavian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA660,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Chakavian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Shtokavian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Namibia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA13,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million89.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million5.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million1.25 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Croatian 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
52-ACB-ba
part of 53-AAA-g
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
Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic