1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Not Available
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
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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?
Hoe gaan dit
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Not Available
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Namibia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
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
Sino-Tibetan 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
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
Analytic, Isolating