Countries
South Africa
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Dutch Language
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Dutch Language
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
سلام
  
Thank You
Dankie
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
goeie nag
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
Goeienaand
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
goeie more
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
asseblief
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
jammer
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Not Available
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Namibia
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
26
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
Not Available
  
Native Name
Afrikaans
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
afrikaans
  
persan
  
German Name
Afrikaans
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
  
Persian people
  
Origin
17th Century
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
  
Persian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
af
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Synthetic
  
Afrikaans and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Persian language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Persian Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.