Countries
South Africa
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
  
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
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.
  
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
Similar To
Dutch Language
  
Malay language
  
Derived From
Dutch Language
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Dankie
  
Terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
  
Apa kabar?
  
Good Night
goeie nag
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Goeienaand
  
Malam yang baik
  
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
  
Selamat Sore
  
Good Morning
goeie more
  
Selamat Pagi
  
Please
asseblief
  
mohon Untuk
  
Sorry
jammer
  
maaf
  
Bye
Not Available
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
  
Aku cinta kamu
  
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
  
Permisi
  
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Sundanese
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Balinese
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
  
Minangkabau
  
Where They Speak
Namibia
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
140.00 million
  
4
Native Name
Afrikaans
  
Bahasa Melayu
  
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
French Name
afrikaans
  
indonésien
  
German Name
Afrikaans
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
  
Indonesians
  
Origin
17th Century
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Old Malay
  
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
  
Indonesian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
af
  
id
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
ind
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
ind
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
ind
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
indo1316
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Agglutinative
  
Afrikaans and Indonesian 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 Indonesian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Indonesian language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Indonesian word for "Thank You" is Terima kasih. Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Indonesian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Indonesian Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Indonesian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Indonesian 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 Indonesian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Indonesian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Indonesian time required is 36 weeks.