1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Prakrit Language
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
hallo
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Dankie
3.3 How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
goeie more
3.8 Please
कृपया (kripayā)
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
jammer
3.10 Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Not present
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not present
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not present
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
14.10 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
14.10 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Afrikaans
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology