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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Ghana, Ivory coast

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Ghana

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Benin, United States of America

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Akan Orthography Committee

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.
  • Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
  • Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.

Similar To

Dutch Language
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages

Derived From

Dutch Language
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3221
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1716
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
ete-sen

Thank You

Dankie
meda ase

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
wo ho te sɛn?

Good Night

goeie nag
maadwo

Good Evening

Goeienaand
maadwo

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
maaha

Good Morning

goeie more
maakye

Please

asseblief
wae

Sorry

jammer
Kafra

Bye

Totsiens
bye

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
Me doכ wo

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
mepa wo kyɛw

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Asante

Where They Speak

-
Ghana

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.009,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Akuapem

Where They Speak

-
Ghana

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.009,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Fante

Where They Speak

Namibia
Ghana

How Many People Speak

7.001,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

33
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million11.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %0.17 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million11.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million21.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
Akan

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Twi, Fante

French Name

afrikaans
akan

German Name

Afrikaans
Akan-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˈaːkã]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
Akan people

History

Origin

17th Century
15

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic
-

Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
Akan

Language Position

23104
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Akan Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

af
ak

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
aka

ISO 639 2/B

afr
aka

ISO 639 3

afr
aka

ISO 639 6

afrs
aka

Glottocode

afri1274
akan1251

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
-

Afrikaans and Akan Alphabets

Afrikaans and Akan Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and Akan. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Akan Alphabets there are 21 letters. To learn Afrikaans and Akan languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and Akan 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 Akan greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and Akan are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Afrikaans and Akan Speaking population

Afrikaans and Akan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Akan languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Akan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Akan language is 0.17 %. 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 Akan on Afrikaans vs Akan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Akan Language Codes

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