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Afrikaans
Afrikaans

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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Nigeria

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Equatorial Guinea

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture

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.
  • In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
  • Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.

Similar To

Dutch Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages

Derived From

Dutch Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3236
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

158
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1728
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks52 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
kedụ

Thank You

Dankie
dalụ

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
kedụ ka ịmere

Good Night

goeie nag
ka chi fo

Good Evening

Goeienaand
mgbede ọma

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
ehihie ọma

Good Morning

goeie more
ụtụtụ ọma

Please

asseblief
Biko

Sorry

jammer
Ndo

Bye

Totsiens
Kachifo

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
a hụrụ m gị n'anya

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
ngọpụ

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Enuani

Where They Speak

-
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Ngwa

Where They Speak

-
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.001,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Not present

Where They Speak

Namibia
-

How Many People Speak

7.0024.00
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 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %0.09 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million24.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
igbo

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Ibo

French Name

afrikaans
igbo

German Name

Afrikaans
Ibo-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[iɡ͡boː]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
Igbo people

History

Origin

17th Century
30th Century BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Kwa

Branch

Western
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
Standard Igbo

Language Position

2357
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Igbo Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
ig

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
ibo

ISO 639 2/B

afr
ibo

ISO 639 3

afr
ibo

ISO 639 6

afrs
ibo

Glottocode

afri1274
nucl1417

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Agglutinative

Afrikaans and Igbo Alphabets

Afrikaans and Igbo Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and Igbo. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters. To learn Afrikaans and Igbo languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and Igbo 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 Igbo greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and Igbo are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Afrikaans and Igbo Speaking population

Afrikaans and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 %. 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 Igbo on Afrikaans vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Igbo Language Codes

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