1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
Sanskrit Language
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
Dankie
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
goeie nag
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
jammer
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
Not Available
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA790,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Bajhangi
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
India, Nepal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Baitadeli
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million5.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
नेपाली (nēpālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
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
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Nepali
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
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