1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Serbian and Croatian
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
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
Shtokavian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA13,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Chakavian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA660,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Kajkavian
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 million3.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million3.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
19th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European 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
Bosnian
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
part of 53-AAA-g
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology