1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- 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
Malay language
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
Dutch Language
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
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Malam yang baik
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Sundanese
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Balinese
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Minangkabau
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
Namibia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
163.00 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
1.3 Speaking Population
1.4 Native Speakers
23.00 million7.10 million
0.13
873
2.2.1 Second Language Speakers
140.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
2.2.2 Native Name
2.2.3 Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Cape Dutch
2.2.4 French Name
2.3.2 German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Afrikaans
2.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
2.5 Ethnicity
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
3.2.2 Branch
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
Old Malay
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
3.3.2 Standard Forms
Indonesian
Standard Afrikaans
3.3.3 Language Position
3.3.5 Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
3.4 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology