Countries
South Africa
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
South Africa
India
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Marathi
Derived From
Dutch Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3252
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1516
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1736
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
hallo
Namaskar
Thank You
Dankie
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
kaso assa?
Good Night
goeie nag
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
goeie more
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
asseblief
Chike
Sorry
jammer
Maf kor
Bye
Totsiens
Adeus
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Antruz
Where They Speak
-
Goa
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Not present
Where They Speak
Namibia
-
How Many People Speak
7.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
afrikaans
konkani
German Name
Afrikaans
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Konkanis
Origin
17th Century
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Kokani
Language Position
2323
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
af
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
kok
ISO 639 2/B
afr
kok
ISO 639 3
afr
kok
ISO 639 6
afrs
kok
Glottocode
afri1274
goan1235
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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