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Afrikaans and Croatian

Countries

Countries

South Africa
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

19
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Austria

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

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.
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

Similar To

Dutch Language
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

Dutch Language
Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3230
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

155
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1725
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
bok

Thank You

Dankie
hvala

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
kako si

Good Night

goeie nag
laku noć

Good Evening

Goeienaand
dobra večer

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
dobar dan

Good Morning

goeie more
dobro jutro

Please

asseblief
molim

Sorry

jammer
Oprostite

Bye

Totsiens
Doviđenja

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
Volim te

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Chakavian

Where They Speak

-
Croatia

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.00660,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Chakavian

Where They Speak

-
Croatia

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Shtokavian

Where They Speak

Namibia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

7.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

379
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million89.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %89.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million5.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million1.25 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
hrvatski

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Hrvatski

French Name

afrikaans
croate

German Name

Afrikaans
Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
Croats

History

Origin

17th Century
9th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
-

Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

2323
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Croatian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
hrv

ISO 639 2/B

afr
hrv

ISO 639 3

afr
hrv

ISO 639 6

afrs
hrv

Glottocode

afri1274
croa1245

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
-

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic

Afrikaans and Croatian Alphabets

Afrikaans and Croatian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and Croatian. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Afrikaans and Croatian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and Croatian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Afrikaans and Croatian Speaking population

Afrikaans and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Croatian on Afrikaans vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Croatian Language Codes

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