Countries
South Africa
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Dutch Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3221
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1719
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Bwakeye
Thank You
Dankie
Urakoze
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Urakomeye?
Good Night
goeie nag
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
goeie more
Mwaramutse
Please
asseblief
Ndagusavye
Sorry
jammer
Ndasubiza
Bye
Totsiens
N’agasaga
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
-
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Ha
Where They Speak
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Tanzania
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Shubi
Where They Speak
Namibia
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
7.00153,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Afrikaans
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
afrikaans
rundi
German Name
Afrikaans
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
17th Century
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Western
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Kirundi
Language Position
2386
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
af
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
run
ISO 639 2/B
afr
run
ISO 639 3
afr
run
ISO 639 6
afrs
run
Glottocode
afri1274
rund1242
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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