Countries
South Africa
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
South Africa
Ethiopia
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages 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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Dutch Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3233
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
157
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1731
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
hallo
Selam
Thank You
Dankie
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Dehina newot?
Good Night
goeie nag
Dehna dur
Good Evening
Goeienaand
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
goeie more
i'ndemin adäru
Please
asseblief
i'bakwon
Sorry
jammer
aznallehu
Bye
Totsiens
tschao
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Gondar
Where They Speak
-
Gondar
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Gojjami
Where They Speak
-
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Showa
Where They Speak
Namibia
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
7.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
afrikaans
amharique
German Name
Afrikaans
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Amharas
Origin
17th Century
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Semitic
Branch
Western
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Amharic
Language Position
2355
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
amh
ISO 639 2/B
afr
amh
ISO 639 3
afr
amh
ISO 639 6
afrs
amh
Glottocode
afri1274
amha1245
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Fusional