1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
France, Germany, Indonesia
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
German and English Languages
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
Left-To-Right, 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?
Hoe gaan dit
hoe gaat het met je?
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
Ek het jou lief
Ik hou van jou
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Gronings
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Netherlands
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA590,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Low Saxon
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Limburgian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Namibia
Belgium, Netherlands
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,300,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million22.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million6.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Hollands, Nederlands
5.3.4 French Name
afrikaans
néerlandais; flamand
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
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
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Dutch
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology