1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Munda 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
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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
Cet’leka menama?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Not Available
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Not Available
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Not Available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Not present
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Not present
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 million6.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million6.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
20th century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic 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
Santali
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology