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
Africa
Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Nynorsk
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
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
hvordan har du det?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
god ettermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Jeg Elsker Deg
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Jamtlandic
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Jamtland,Harjedalen
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Sognamål
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Hallingmål-Valdris
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Namibia
Hallingdal, Valdres
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 million5.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million5.00 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
afrikaans
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Western
Northern (Scandinavian)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Nynorsk, Bokmål
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Norwegian
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
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
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