1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Dutch 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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
hallo
3.2 Thank You
Dankie
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
3.8 Please
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
jammer
3.10 Bye
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Namibia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
Rank: 43 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million
Rank: 58 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
Rank: 22 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
afrikaans
5.3.5 German Name
Afrikaans
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
Afrikaners
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1
120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
af
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
afr
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
afr
7.3 ISO 639 3
afr
7.4 ISO 639 6
afrs
7.5 Glottocode
afri1274
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic