Countries
South Africa
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Norway
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Dutch Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3229
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
159
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1720
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
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 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
hallo
Thank You
Dankie
takk
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
goeie nag
god natt
Good Evening
Goeienaand
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
goeie more
god morgen
Please
asseblief
Vær så snill
Sorry
jammer
unnskyld
Bye
Totsiens
ha det
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
-
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Sognamål
Where They Speak
-
Sogn
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Namibia
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
7.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
319
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Afrikaans
Norsk
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Norsk
French Name
afrikaans
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Afrikaans
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Norwegians
Origin
17th Century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Germanic
Branch
Western
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
2318
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
af
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
nor
ISO 639 2/B
afr
nor
ISO 639 3
afr
nor
ISO 639 6
afrs
nor
Glottocode
afri1274
norw1258
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Fusional