1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Xhosa 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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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
Goeienaand
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
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 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Deep Zulu
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
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