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Afrikaans
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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

17
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Germany

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

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

Derived From

Dutch Language
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3226
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

179
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
hallo

Thank You

Dankie
Danke

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

goeie nag
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Goeienaand
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
guten Tag

Good Morning

goeie more
guten Morgen

Please

asseblief
bitte

Sorry

jammer
Verzeihung

Bye

Totsiens
Tschüs

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Swiss German

Where They Speak

-
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Swabian German

Where They Speak

-
Germany

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Texas German

Where They Speak

Namibia
Texas

How Many People Speak

7.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

328
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

afrikaans
allemand

German Name

Afrikaans
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
Germans

History

Origin

17th Century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Germanic

Branch

Western
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

239
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
deu

ISO 639 2/B

afr
ger

ISO 639 3

afr
deu

ISO 639 6

afrs
deus

Glottocode

afri1274
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic

Afrikaans and German Alphabets

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

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

Afrikaans and German Speaking population

Afrikaans and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and German languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Afrikaans vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and German Language Codes

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