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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Gambia, Nigeria

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
Nigeria

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo

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.
  • Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
  • There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.

Similar To

Dutch Language
Yoruba and Igbo Languages

Derived From

Dutch Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3244
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1512
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1732
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
sannu

Thank You

Dankie
gode ku

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
yaya dai

Good Night

goeie nag
mai kyau dare

Good Evening

Goeienaand
barka da yamma

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
barka da rana

Good Morning

goeie more
mai kyau safe

Please

asseblief
Don Allah

Sorry

jammer
yi hakuri

Bye

Totsiens
sai anjima

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
Ina son ku

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
gafara dai

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Gaananci

Where They Speak

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Ghana

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Kurhwayanci

Where They Speak

-
Niger

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.00150,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Daragaram

Where They Speak

Namibia
Niger

How Many People Speak

7.0050.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

320
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million50.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %0.52 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million35.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa

French Name

afrikaans
haoussa

German Name

Afrikaans
Haussa-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[hàʊsà]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
Hausa–Fulani people

History

Origin

17th Century
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Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Chadic

Branch

Western
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
Hausa

Language Position

2334
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Hausa

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
ha

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
hau

ISO 639 2/B

afr
hau

ISO 639 3

afr
hau

ISO 639 6

afrs
hau

Glottocode

afri1274
haus1257

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
19-HAA-b

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Fusional

Afrikaans and Hausa Alphabets

Afrikaans and Hausa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and Hausa. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Hausa Alphabets there are 44 letters. To learn Afrikaans and Hausa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and Hausa 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 Hausa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and Hausa are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Afrikaans and Hausa Speaking population

Afrikaans and Hausa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Hausa languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Hausa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hausa language is 0.52 %. 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 Hausa on Afrikaans vs Hausa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Hausa Language Codes

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