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Afrikaans and Japanese

Countries

Countries

South Africa
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Japan

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Palau

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Dutch Language
Korean Language

Derived From

Dutch Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3299
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

155
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1714
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Dankie
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

goeie nag
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Goeienaand
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

goeie more
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

asseblief
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

jammer
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Totsiens
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Sanuki

Where They Speak

-
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Hakata

Where They Speak

-
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Kansai

Where They Speak

Namibia
kansai

How Many People Speak

7.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

331
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
日本語

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Nihongo

French Name

afrikaans
japonais

German Name

Afrikaans
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

17th Century
1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
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Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
Japanese

Language Position

238
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

afr
jpn

ISO 639 3

afr
jpn

ISO 639 6

afrs
jpn

Glottocode

afri1274
nucl1643

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Afrikaans and Japanese Alphabets

Afrikaans and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and Japanese. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Afrikaans and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Afrikaans and Japanese Speaking population

Afrikaans and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Afrikaans vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Japanese Language Codes

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