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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council

Total No. Of Countries

15
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language 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.
  • Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
  • There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.

Similar To

Dutch Language
Norwegian and Swedish

Derived From

Dutch Language
Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3229
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1520
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1720
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Hallo

Thank You

Dankie
Mange tak

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
Hvordan har du det?

Good Night

goeie nag
God nat

Good Evening

Goeienaand
God aften

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
God eftermiddag

Good Morning

goeie more
God morgen

Please

asseblief
Please

Sorry

jammer
Undskyld!

Bye

Totsiens
Farvel

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
Jeg elsker dig

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
Undskyld mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Scanian

Where They Speak

-
Sweden

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.0080,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Jutlandic

Where They Speak

-
Denmark

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.006,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Bornholmsk

Where They Speak

Namibia
Island of Bornholm

How Many People Speak

7.006,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

34
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million5.50 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million5.50 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
dansk

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Dansk, Rigsdansk

French Name

afrikaans
danois

German Name

Afrikaans
Dänisch

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
Danish people or Danes

History

Origin

17th Century
c. 1100 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
-

Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
Rigsdansk

Language Position

2318
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Danish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
da

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
dan

ISO 639 2/B

afr
dan

ISO 639 3

afr
dan

ISO 639 6

afrs
dan

Glottocode

afri1274
dani1284

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Fusional

Afrikaans and Danish Alphabets

Afrikaans and Danish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and Danish. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Danish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Afrikaans and Danish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and Danish 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 Danish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and Danish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Afrikaans and Danish Speaking population

Afrikaans and Danish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Danish languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Danish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Danish language is 0.07 %. 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 Danish on Afrikaans vs Danish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Danish Language Codes

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