Countries
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Gambia
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Regulated By
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Interesting Facts
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
Similar To
Turkish
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Osmanly language
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
Azerbaijani-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Salam
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Təşəkkür edirəm
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
necəsən
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
yaxşı gecə
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
Axşamınız xeyir
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
Günortanız Xeyir
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
Sabahınız xeyir
  
goeie more
  
Please
lütfən
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
üzr
  
jammer
  
Bye
xudafiz
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Mən səni sevirəm
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
Bağışlayın
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Derbent
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Russia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Gazakh
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Baku
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak?
26.00 million
  
39
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
azéri
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Aserbeidschanisch
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
Azerbaijani
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
16th Century
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Azerbaijani
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
az
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
aze
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
aze
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
aze
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
azer1255
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic
  
Azerbaijani and Afrikaans 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 Azerbaijani and Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Azerbaijani and Afrikaans language. Azerbaijani word for "Hello" is Salam or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Azerbaijani Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Azerbaijani vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Azerbaijani vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Azerbaijani Alphabets and Afrikaans 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 Azerbaijani and Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Azerbaijani and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Azerbaijani is 44 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.