Countries
South Africa
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Munda Language
Derived From
Dutch Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3230
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
156
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1721
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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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Hello
hallo
Henda ho
Thank You
Dankie
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
goeie nag
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
संध्यायान
Good Morning
goeie more
Boge Setak’
Please
asseblief
দয়া করে
Sorry
jammer
দুঃখিত
Bye
Totsiens
Hariau
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Mahali
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Not present
Where They Speak
Namibia
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How Many People Speak
7.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million6.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
afrikaans
santal
German Name
Afrikaans
Santali
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
17th Century
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic 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
Santali
Language Position
2341
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
sat
ISO 639 2/B
afr
sat
ISO 639 3
afr
sat
ISO 639 6
afrs
sat
Glottocode
afri1274
sant1410
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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