1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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
hallo
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
goeie nag
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
asseblief
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
jammer
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
Not Available
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Olonets
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Novgorod
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 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Russian
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
Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic