1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
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.
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Not Available
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?
Hoe gaan dit
Manao ahoana!
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
Manao ahoana e
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Manao ahoana e
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Tiako ianao.
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Eastern Malagasy
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA5,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Western Malagasy
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Not Available
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 millionNA
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million18.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
Fiteny Malagasy
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Malagasy Sign Language
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Afrikaans
Malagassi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Malagasy people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian 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
standard Malagasy
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
Verb-Object-Subject
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology