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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

133
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
South Africa

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Dutch Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

Dutch Language
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3226
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

155
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1721
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

37
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Hello

Thank You

Dankie
Thank you

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
How are you?

Good Night

goeie nag
Good Night

Good Evening

Goeienaand
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

goeie more
Good Morning

Please

asseblief
Please

Sorry

jammer
Sorry

Bye

Totsiens
Bye

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
I love you

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
American English

Where They Speak

-
United States of America

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

-
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Namibia
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

7.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
English

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
English

French Name

afrikaans
anglais

German Name

Afrikaans
Englisch

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
English people

History

Origin

17th Century
5th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
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Branch

Western
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
Standard English

Language Position

233
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
eng

ISO 639 2/B

afr
eng

ISO 639 3

afr
eng

ISO 639 6

afrs
engs

Glottocode

afri1274
stan1293

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Afrikaans and English Alphabets

Afrikaans and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and English. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Afrikaans and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Afrikaans and English Speaking population

Afrikaans and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and English languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Afrikaans vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and English Language Codes

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