Countries
South Africa
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
India
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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Kannada Language
Derived From
Dutch Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3251
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1735
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Namaskara
Thank You
Dankie
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
goeie nag
yedde rathre
Good Evening
Goeienaand
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
goeie more
yedde kaande
Please
asseblief
Daya maltadu
Sorry
jammer
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
Totsiens
Barpe
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
-
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Jain
Where They Speak
-
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Girijan
Where They Speak
Namibia
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
7.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.10 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Afrikaans
Tulu
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
afrikaans
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German Name
Afrikaans
Tulu
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Tuluva
Origin
17th Century
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Western
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Tulu
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
afr
tul
ISO 639 3
afr
tcy
ISO 639 6
afrs
tcy
Glottocode
afri1274
tulu1258
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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