Countries
South Africa
Rajastan, India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Rajastan, 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
Nepal, Pakistan
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.
- Marwari language was historically written in Mahajani, which is version of the Landa script.
- Marwari language is written in Arabic Alphabets in Pakistan.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Derived From
Dutch Language
Gujarati Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3242
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1732
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
khammaghani
Thank You
Dankie
dhanyavaad
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Kikan ho sa?
Good Night
goeie nag
shubh raatri
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Shubh Honjh
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Shubh Befar
Good Morning
goeie more
Shubh Havar
Please
asseblief
kirpa
Sorry
jammer
Maaf Karo
Bye
Totsiens
bye
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
main tanne pyaar karoon
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
maaf karo
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Jogi
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0014,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Bagri
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0014,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Dhundhari
Where They Speak
Namibia
India
How Many People Speak
7.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million22.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million14.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Afrikaans
Marwari
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Marvadi, Marvari, Marwadi, Rajasthani
French Name
afrikaans
marvari
German Name
Afrikaans
Marwari
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[məˈrwɑːɾi]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Marwari or Marwadi
Origin
17th Century
16
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Marwari
Language Position
2372
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
af
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
mwr
ISO 639 2/B
afr
mwr
ISO 639 3
afr
mwr
ISO 639 6
afrs
mwr
Glottocode
afri1274
raja1256
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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