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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Russia

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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.
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Dutch Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

Dutch Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3233
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1721
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

Dankie
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

goeie nag
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

Goeienaand
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

goeie more
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

asseblief
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

jammer
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

Totsiens
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

-
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Olonets

Where They Speak

-
Olonets

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Novgorod

Where They Speak

Namibia
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

7.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

313
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
Русский

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Russki

French Name

afrikaans
russe

German Name

Afrikaans
Russisch

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
Russians

History

Origin

17th Century
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Slavic

Branch

Western
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
Standard Russian

Language Position

237
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
rus

ISO 639 2/B

afr
rus

ISO 639 3

afr
rus

ISO 639 6

afrs
rus

Glottocode

afri1274
russ1263

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic

Afrikaans and Russian Alphabets

Afrikaans and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and Russian. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Afrikaans and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and Russian languages. The Afrikaans phonology consist Afrikaans vowels and Afrikaans consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Afrikaans greetings vs Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Afrikaans and Russian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Afrikaans and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Afrikaans and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Afrikaans are spoken in different Afrikaans Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Afrikaans vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans, Oranjeriverafrikaans. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Afrikaans and Russian Speaking population

Afrikaans and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Afrikaans and Russian on Afrikaans vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Russian Language Codes

Afrikaans and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Afrikaans and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.