Countries
South Africa
  
Rajastan, India
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Rajastan, India
  
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Nepal, Pakistan
  
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Marwari language was historically written in Mahajani, which is version of the Landa script.
- Marwari language is written in Arabic Alphabets in Pakistan.
  
Similar To
Dutch Language
  
Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punjabi Languages
  
Derived From
Dutch Language
  
Gujarati Language
  
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Marwari-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
khammaghani
  
Thank You
Dankie
  
dhanyavaad
  
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
  
Kikan ho sa?
  
Good Night
goeie nag
  
shubh raatri
  
Good Evening
Goeienaand
  
Shubh Honjh
  
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
  
Shubh Befar
  
Good Morning
goeie more
  
Shubh Havar
  
Please
asseblief
  
kirpa
  
Sorry
jammer
  
Maaf Karo
  
Bye
Not Available
  
bye
  
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
  
main tanne pyaar karoon
  
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
  
maaf karo
  
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Jogi
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
India
  
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Bagri
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
  
Dhundhari
  
Where They Speak
Namibia
  
India
  
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
22.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
14.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
Not Available
  
Native Name
Afrikaans
  
Marwari
  
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
  
Marvadi, Marvari, Marwadi, Rajasthani
  
French Name
afrikaans
  
marvari
  
German Name
Afrikaans
  
Marwari
  
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
  
Marwari or Marwadi
  
Origin
17th Century
  
16
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
  
Marwari
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
af
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
mwr
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
mwr
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
mwr
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
raja1256
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Not Available
  
Afrikaans and Marwari 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 Marwari greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Marwari language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Marwari word for "Thank You" is dhanyavaad. Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Marwari Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Marwari Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Marwari difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Marwari 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 Marwari are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Marwari, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Marwari time required is 44 weeks.