1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Estonia, European Union
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Estonia, Gambia
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
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
1.9 Similar To
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
kuidas sul läheb
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Tere päevast
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
Tere hommikust
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
ma armastan sind
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Keskmurre
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Tartu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Georgia, South Estonia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Idamurre
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Namibia
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
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 million1.10 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million0.95 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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
17th Century
13th century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic 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
Estonian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Estonian Sign Language
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
No data available
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