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South Africa
1
South Africa
Namibia, South Africa
Africa
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Dutch Language
Dutch Language
 
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
32
15
17
Latin
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3
24 weeks
 
hallo
Dankie
Hoe gaan dit
goeie nag
Goeienaand
Goeie middag
goeie more
asseblief
jammer
Totsiens
Ek het jou lief
Verskoon my
 
Kaapse Afrikaans
-
7,700,000.00
Oranjeriverafrikaans
-
7,700,000.00
Baster Afrikaans
Namibia
7.00
3
 
19.00 million
0.03 %
7.10 million
10.30 million
Afrikaans
Cape Dutch
afrikaans
Afrikaans
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Afrikaners
 
17th Century
Indo-European Family
Germanic
Western
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Afrikaans
23
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Individual
 
af
afr
afr
afr
afrs
afri1274
52-ACB-ba
Living
Subject-Object-Verb
Analytic
 
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
4
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
    Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
    Arabic Language
     
    Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
    24
    5
    21
    Latin
    -
    3
    36 weeks
     
    Habari
    Asante
    Habari gani?
    Usiku mwema
    Habari za jioni
    nzuri Alasiri
    Habari za asubuhi
    tafadhali
    pole
    bye
    nakupenda
    Samahani
     
    Kiunguja
    Zanzibar island
    75,000,000.00
    Kimrima
    Dar es Salaam
    75,000,000.00
    Kimgao
    Kilwa
    75,000,000.00
    12
     
    150.00 million
    0.42 %
    15.00 million
    75.00 million
    Kiswahili
    Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
    swahili
    Swahili
    [swaˈhili]
    Swahili people or Waswahili
     
    6th century
    Niger-Congo Family
    Benue-Congo
    Bantu
    No early forms
    Swahili
    21
    Swahili Sign Language
    Individual, Macrolanguage
     
    sw
    swa
    swa
    swa
    swa
    swah1254
    99-AUS-m
    Living
    -
    -

    Afrikaans and Swahili Alphabets

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

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

    Afrikaans and Swahili Speaking population

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

    Afrikaans and Swahili Language Codes

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