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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City

Total No. Of Countries

17
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)

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 most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.

Similar To

Dutch Language
French and Portuguese Languages

Derived From

Dutch Language
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3221
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

155
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1716
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
ciao

Thank You

Dankie
grazie

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
Come stai?

Good Night

goeie nag
buonanotte

Good Evening

Goeienaand
buonasera

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
buon pomeriggio

Good Morning

goeie more
buongiorno

Please

asseblief
Per Favore

Sorry

jammer
scusate

Bye

Totsiens
arrivederci

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
Ti amo

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
Scusami

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Romanesco

Where They Speak

-
Lazio

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.003,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Central Italian

Where They Speak

-
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.005,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Tuscan

Where They Speak

Namibia
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria

How Many People Speak

7.0069,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

315
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million78.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %0.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million64.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million14.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
Italiano

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Italiano

French Name

afrikaans
italien

German Name

Afrikaans
Italienisch

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[itaˈljaːno]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
Italians

History

Origin

17th Century
960 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Romance

Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
Italian

Language Position

2327
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
it

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
ita

ISO 639 2/B

afr
ita

ISO 639 3

afr
ita

ISO 639 6

afrs
itas

Glottocode

afri1274
ital1282

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
51-AAA-q

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic

Afrikaans and Italian Alphabets

Afrikaans and Italian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and Italian. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Italian Alphabets there are 21 letters. To learn Afrikaans and Italian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and Italian 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 Italian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and Italian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Afrikaans and Italian Speaking population

Afrikaans and Italian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Italian languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Italian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Italian language is 0.90 %. 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 Italian on Afrikaans vs Italian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Italian Language Codes

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