1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Finland
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish 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.
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Norwegian and Danish Language
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
Old Norse 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
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
god eftermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
jag älskar dig
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Dialects
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA78,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Dialects
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA78,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Dialects
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA96,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million15.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million8.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million5.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Ruotsi, Svenska
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Swedes, Finland Swedes
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
13th Century
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 Swedish
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Swedish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
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-ck to -cw
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