1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Estonian and Livonian 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
Mitä kuuluu?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
Hyvää huomenta
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Colloquial Finnish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Rauma
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Finland, Rauma
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Meänkieli
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million5.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million5.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million0.01 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
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
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
standard Finnish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Finnish
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
Analytic
Agglutinative, Synthetic