Countries
South Africa
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Pakistan
  
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
  
Pakistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
India
  
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
  
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.
  
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  
Similar To
Dutch Language
  
Arabic and Hindi Languages
  
Derived From
Dutch Language
  
Ghaznavid Persian Language
  
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Urdu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
خوش آمديد
  
Thank You
Dankie
  
آپ کا شکریہ
  
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
  
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
  
Good Night
goeie nag
  
گڈ نائٹ
  
Good Evening
Goeienaand
  
سلام علیکم
  
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
  
گڈ آفٹر نون
  
Good Morning
goeie more
  
گڈ مارننگ
  
Please
asseblief
  
براہ مہربانی
  
Sorry
jammer
  
معاف کرنا
  
Bye
Not Available
  
الوداع
  
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
  
مجھے تم سے محبت
  
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
  
معاف کیجئے گا
  
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Dakhini
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
11,000,000.00
  
12
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Hyderabadi Urdu
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
  
Rekhta
  
Where They Speak
Namibia
  
South Asia
  
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
104.00 million
  
15
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
61.00 million
  
19
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
43.00 million
  
14
Native Name
Afrikaans
  
اُردُو
  
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
  
Bihari
  
French Name
afrikaans
  
ourdou
  
German Name
Afrikaans
  
Urdu
  
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
[ˈʊrd̪u]
  
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
  
Not Available
  
Origin
17th Century
  
12th Century CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
  
Modern Standard Urdu
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Signed Urdu
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
af
  
ur
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
urd
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
urd
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
urd
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
urdu1245
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
59-AAF-q
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Fusional
  
Afrikaans and Urdu 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 Urdu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Urdu language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Urdu word for "Thank You" is آپ کا شکریہ. Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Urdu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Urdu Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Urdu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Urdu 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 Urdu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Urdu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Urdu time required is 44 weeks.