1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
Not Available
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dankie
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Како си? (Kako si?)
3.4 Good Night
goeie nag
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
jammer
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
3.10 Bye
Not Available
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Волим те (Volim te)
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Извините (Izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Prizren-Timok
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Southeastern Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Smederevo–Vršac
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Torlakian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Namibia
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million8.70 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million8.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
11th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Serbian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Not Available
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology