1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
European Union, Latvia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Latvian State Language Center
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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Lithuanian 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
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Kā jums klājas?
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
Not Available
Uz redzēšanos
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Es tevi mīlu
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Livonian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Middle Latvian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
High Latvian
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 million1.75 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million1.75 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
latviešu valoda
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
Latvians or Letts
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
Latvian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Latvian 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