Countries
South Africa
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
South Africa
  
India
  
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Dutch Language
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Dutch Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hindi.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
Dankie
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
goeie nag
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
Goeienaand
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
goeie more
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
asseblief
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
jammer
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
Not Available
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Namibia
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
380.00 million
  
5
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
Afrikaans
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
afrikaans
  
hindi
  
German Name
Afrikaans
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
17th Century
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
  
Standard Hindi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
af
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
hins
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Afrikaans and Hindi Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Afrikaans and Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Hindi language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Hindi Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Hindi Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Afrikaans and Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.