Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
South Africa
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
goeie more
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
jammer
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
chinois
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Analytic
  
Chinese 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 Chinese and Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Afrikaans language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Chinese vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.