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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara

Total No. Of Countries

146
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Spain

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española

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.
  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.

Similar To

Dutch Language
French Language

Derived From

Dutch Language
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3227
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

155
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1722
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
hola

Thank You

Dankie
Gracias

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
Cómo estás?

Good Night

goeie nag
Buenas Noches

Good Evening

Goeienaand
Bonne soirée

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
Buenas Tardes

Good Morning

goeie more
Buenos Días

Please

asseblief
Por Favor

Sorry

jammer
triste

Bye

Totsiens
adiós

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
Te Quiero

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
Discúlpeme

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Mexican Spanish

Where They Speak

-
Mexico

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.00105,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Cuban Spanish

Where They Speak

-
Cuba

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.0011,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Puerto Rican Spanish

Where They Speak

Namibia
Puerto Rico

How Many People Speak

7.003,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

321
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million489.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %6.15 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million410.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million89.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
Español

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Castellano, Castilian, Español

French Name

afrikaans
espagnol; castillan

German Name

Afrikaans
Spanisch

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
Spanish people

History

Origin

17th Century
210 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Romance

Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Spanish and Spanish

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
Pluricentric Standard Spanish

Language Position

232
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Spanish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
es

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
spa

ISO 639 2/B

afr
spa

ISO 639 3

afr
spa

ISO 639 6

afrs
spa

Glottocode

afri1274
stan1288

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
51-AAA-b

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic

Afrikaans and Spanish Alphabets

Afrikaans and Spanish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and Spanish. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Spanish Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn Afrikaans and Spanish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and Spanish 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 Spanish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and Spanish are Most Spoken Languages.

All Afrikaans and Spanish 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 Spanish dialects. Various dialects of Afrikaans and Spanish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Afrikaans are spoken in different Afrikaans Speaking Countries whereas Spanish Dialects are spoken in different Spanish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Afrikaans vs Spanish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans, Oranjeriverafrikaans. Spanish dialects include: Mexican Spanish , Cuban Spanish. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Afrikaans and Spanish Speaking population

Afrikaans and Spanish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Spanish languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Spanish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Spanish language is 6.15 %. 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 Spanish on Afrikaans vs Spanish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Spanish Language Codes

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