Countries
South Africa
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
South Africa
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
Dutch Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3252
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1511
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1741
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Bengali
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
nomoskaar
Thank You
Dankie
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
goeie nag
subhoraattri
Good Evening
Goeienaand
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
subha abeli
Good Morning
goeie more
suprobhaat
Please
asseblief
anugroha kori
Sorry
jammer
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
Totsiens
biḍai
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
-
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
-
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
Namibia
Assam
How Many People Speak
7.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million15.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
afrikaans
assamais
German Name
Afrikaans
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Assamese people
Origin
17th Century
7th century A.D
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Western
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Assamese
Language Position
2365
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Assamese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
asm
ISO 639 2/B
afr
asm
ISO 639 3
afr
asm
ISO 639 6
afrs
asm
Glottocode
afri1274
assa1263
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
59-AAF-w
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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