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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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Rank: 14 (Overall)
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
South Africa
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 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.
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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32
Rank: 14 (Overall)
28
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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15
Rank: 12 (Overall)
8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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17
Rank: 7 (Overall)
20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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Rank: 2 (Overall)
10
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
hallo
您好
3.2 Thank You
Dankie
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
你好吗?
3.4 Good Night
goeie nag
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
早上好
3.8 Please
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
jammer
遗憾
3.10 Bye
Not Available
再见
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Xiguan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Namibia
Hong Kong
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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19.00 million
Rank: 43 (Overall)
60.00 million
Rank: 27 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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7.10 million
Rank: 58 (Overall)
52.00 million
Rank: 21 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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10.30 million
Rank: 22 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
afrikaans
Not Available
5.3.5 German Name
Afrikaans
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
17th century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Western
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
af
No data available
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
afr
Not Available
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
afr
Not Available
7.3 ISO 639 3
afr
No data available
7.4 ISO 639 6
afrs
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
afri1274
cant1236
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Not Available

Afrikaans and Cantonese Alphabets

Afrikaans and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and Cantonese. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Afrikaans and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and Cantonese languages. The Afrikaans phonology consist Afrikaans vowels and Afrikaans consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Afrikaans greetings vs Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Afrikaans and Cantonese 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 Afrikaans and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Afrikaans and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Afrikaans are spoken in different Afrikaans Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Afrikaans vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans, Oranjeriverafrikaans. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Afrikaans and Cantonese Speaking population

Afrikaans and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Afrikaans and Cantonese on Afrikaans vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Cantonese Language Codes

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