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Afrikaans
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Countries

Countries

South Africa
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Institute for the Languages of Finland

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.
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.

Similar To

Dutch Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

Dutch Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3229
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

158
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1713
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Moi

Thank You

Dankie
Kiitos

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

goeie nag
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

Goeienaand
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

goeie more
Hyvää huomenta

Please

asseblief
haluta

Sorry

jammer
Anteeksi

Bye

Totsiens
Heippa

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

-
Finland

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Rauma

Where They Speak

-
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

Namibia
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

7.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

321
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Suomi

French Name

afrikaans
finnois

German Name

Afrikaans
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

17th Century
1543

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Finno-Ugric

Branch

Western
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
standard Finnish

Language Position

2322
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
fin

ISO 639 2/B

afr
fin

ISO 639 3

afr
fin

ISO 639 6

afrs
fin

Glottocode

afri1274
finn1318

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Afrikaans and Finnish Alphabets

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

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

Afrikaans and Finnish Speaking population

Afrikaans and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. 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 Finnish on Afrikaans vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Finnish Language Codes

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