Countries
South Africa
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Dutch Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3226
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1524
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1723
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Dankie
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
goeie nag
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
goeie more
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
asseblief
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
jammer
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Totsiens
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Mandarin
Where They Speak
-
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Wu
Where They Speak
-
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Yue
Where They Speak
Namibia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
7.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.10 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Afrikaans
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
afrikaans
chinois
German Name
Afrikaans
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Han
Origin
17th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Chinese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
zho
ISO 639 2/B
afr
chi
ISO 639 3
afr
zho
ISO 639 6
afrs
zho
Glottocode
afri1274
sini1245
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Analytic, Isolating