1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Burundi, Gambia
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Kinyarwanda 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
Not Available
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
Ek het jou lief
Not available
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Not available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Rwanda-Rundi
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA990,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA153,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million8.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million8.80 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]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo 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
Kirundi
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Not Available
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
No data available
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