1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Botswana, Lesotho
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Not Available
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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
Not Available
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
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Not Available
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Thembu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
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 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.30 million11.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Afrikaners
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
16th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo 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
isiXhosa
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Xhosa
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