Countries
South Africa
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Dutch Language
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Dutch Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Dankie
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
goeie nag
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Goeienaand
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
goeie more
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
asseblief
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
jammer
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Not Available
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Namibia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Afrikaans
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
afrikaans
  
népalais
  
German Name
Afrikaans
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
17th Century
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
af
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Agglutinative
  
Afrikaans and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Nepali language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Nepali Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.