Russian and Afrikaans Speaking countries

Russian and Afrikaans as Minority Language

In Russian and Afrikaans speaking countries you will get the countries which have Russian and Afrikaans as minority language. The language which is spoken by minority of population in the country is called as minority language.

If you want to compare Russian and Afrikaans dialects, then you can go to Russian vs Afrikaans Dialects. Some of the official languages are also considered as minority languages.

Russian and Afrikaans Regulators

Russian and Afrikaans speaking countries provide you Russian and Afrikaans regulators which are the official organizations that regulate them. Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences regulates Russian language.Afrikaans is regulated by Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee. Also get to learn, Russian and Afrikaans Language History.

Russian and Afrikaans Continents

Thinking about Russian and Afrikaans continents in which Russian and Afrikaans speaking countries are present. Check out more information on Russian and Afrikaans. Most of the Russian speaking countries lie in Asia, Europe. While Afrikaans speaking countries lie in Africa. Continentwise, most of the languages belong to Asian Languages and African Languages. It's always fun to know about interesting facts of any language, so lets discuss about unknown facts of Russian and Afrikaans languages:

Russian Interesting Facts:

• In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
• In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Afrikaans 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.

The Russian language was derived from Proto-Slavic Vocabulary and is similar to Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages whereas Russian language is similar to Dutch Language and derived from Dutch Language.