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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1.3 National Language
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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Rank: 14 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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15
Rank: 12 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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17
Rank: 7 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
hallo
3.2 Thank You
Dankie
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
3.8 Please
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
jammer
3.10 Bye
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Namibia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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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)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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7.10 million
Rank: 58 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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10.30 million
Rank: 22 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
afrikaans
5.3.5 German Name
Afrikaans
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
Afrikaners
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
af
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
afr
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
afr
7.3 ISO 639 3
afr
7.4 ISO 639 6
afrs
7.5 Glottocode
afri1274
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic

Know Alphabets in Afrikaans

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Afrikaans Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Afrikaans Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Afrikaans. Afrikaans phonology gives Afrikaans vowels and Afrikaans consonants. There are 15 vowels and 17 consonants in Afrikaans language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Afrikaans is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Afrikaans language is given in detail in this section.

All Afrikaans countries

Want to explore all Afrikaans countries? About Afrikaans language serves you with all Afrikaans Speaking Countries. Countries that use Afrikaans as official language are called as Afrikaans countries.

  • Countries that use Afrikaans as their National Language are: South Africa.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Afrikaans as second language are: Namibia, South Africa.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Afrikaans greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Afrikaans Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Afrikaans language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Afrikaans language.Learn Afrikaans greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: hallo
  • Thank you: Dankie
  • Good Morning: goeie more
  • Good Evening: Goeienaand
  • Good Afternoon: Goeie middag

All Afrikaans Language Codes

Get to know all Afrikaans language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Afrikaans Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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