1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
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
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International 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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Amharic and Hebrew
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
Right-To-Left, 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
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Maghrebi
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Sudanese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA17,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Levantine
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA21,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million452.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million206.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million246.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
(al arabiya) العربية
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic 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
Modern Standard Arabic
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Arabic
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