Countries
South Africa
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
South Africa
Indonesia
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Dutch Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3227
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
156
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1721
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Halo
Thank You
Dankie
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
piye kabare?
Good Night
goeie nag
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
goeie more
Sugeng énjing
Please
asseblief
matur nuwun
Sorry
jammer
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Totsiens
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Cirebon
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Arekan
Where They Speak
Namibia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
7.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
afrikaans
javanais
German Name
Afrikaans
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
17th Century
450 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indonesian
Branch
Western
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Javanese
Language Position
2311
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
jav
ISO 639 2/B
afr
jav
ISO 639 3
afr
jav
ISO 639 6
afrs
jav
Glottocode
afri1274
java1253
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Agglutinative