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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
71
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Germany
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Albanian Languages
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2632
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
1015
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
917
Japanese
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
63
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks24 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
hallo
hallo
3.2 Thank You
Danke
Dankie
3.3 How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
gute Nacht
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
guten Abend
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
guten Morgen
goeie more
3.8 Please
bitte
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
Verzeihung
jammer
3.10 Bye
Tschüs
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Swiss German
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Switzerland
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00NA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Swabian German
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Germany
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.00NA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Texas German
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Texas
Namibia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000.00NA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
283
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
229.00 million19.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
1.39 %NA
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million7.10 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 million10.30 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Deutsch
Afrikaans
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
allemand
afrikaans
5.3.5 German Name
Deutsch
Afrikaans
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
Germans
Afrikaners
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th Century AD
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Germanic
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
Western
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
9NA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
de
af
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
deu
afr
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
ger
afr
7.3 ISO 639 3
deu
afr
7.4 ISO 639 6
deus
afrs
7.5 Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
afri1274
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic

German and Afrikaans Alphabets

German and Afrikaans Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Afrikaans. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn German and Afrikaans languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Afrikaans languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Afrikaans greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Afrikaans are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Afrikaans Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of German and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

German and Afrikaans Speaking population

German and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of German and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Afrikaans on German vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Afrikaans Language Codes

German and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.