1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
Sanskrit 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
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
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
goeie nag
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
asseblief
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
jammer
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
Not Available
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
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
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Modern Sinhalese
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
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology