Countries
South Africa
  
Czech Republic, European Union
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Czech Republic
  
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Institute of the Czech Language
  
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 Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  
Similar To
Dutch Language
  
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
  
Derived From
Dutch Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Czech-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
ahoj
  
Thank You
Dankie
  
děkuji
  
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
  
Jak se máš?
  
Good Night
goeie nag
  
dobrou noc
  
Good Evening
Goeienaand
  
dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
  
dobré odpoledne
  
Good Morning
goeie more
  
dobré ráno
  
Please
asseblief
  
prosím
  
Sorry
jammer
  
litovat
  
Bye
Not Available
  
sbohem
  
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
  
Miluji tě
  
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
  
promiňte
  
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Chod
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Chodsko, Bohemia
  
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Lach
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
  
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
  
Moravian
  
Where They Speak
Namibia
  
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
11.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
11.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
Not Available
  
Native Name
Afrikaans
  
čeština / český jazyk
  
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
  
Bohemian, Cestina
  
French Name
afrikaans
  
tchèque
  
German Name
Afrikaans
  
Tschechisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
  
Czechs
  
Origin
17th Century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Western
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
  
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
  
Standard Czech
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Czech Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
af
  
cs
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
ces
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
cze
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
ces
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
czec1258
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
53-AAA-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Afrikaans and Czech Speaking population
Afrikaans and Czech speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Czech languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Czech Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Czech language is 0.15 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Afrikaans and Czech on Afrikaans vs Czech where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Afrikaans and Czech Language Codes
Afrikaans and Czech language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Afrikaans and Czech Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.