1 Countries
1.1 Countries
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
Palau
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Korean 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, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
hallo
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
3.4 Good Night
goeie nag
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
asseblief
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
3.9 Sorry
jammer
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
3.10 Bye
Not Available
さようなら (Sayōnara)
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
すみません (Sumimasen)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Hakata
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 million128.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million128.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
5.5 Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Japanese (Yamato)
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Japanese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Japanese
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Agglutinative, Synthetic