1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Thailand
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Indonesian Language
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
Tamil Language
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
Not Available
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?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
Selamat Petang
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Selamat tengah hari
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Not Available
Selamat tinggal
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Saya sayang kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Bengkulu
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Pekal
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,100,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million175.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million98.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Pluricentric Standard Malay
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Malaysian 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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology