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Countries

Countries

South Africa
India, Pakistan

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Pakistan

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
Pakistan

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Oceania

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
India

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan

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.
  • Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
  • Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.

Similar To

Dutch Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages

Derived From

Dutch Language
Ghaznavid Persian Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3252
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1740
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
خوش آمديد

Thank You

Dankie
آپ کا شکریہ

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
آپ کیسے ہیں؟

Good Night

goeie nag
گڈ نائٹ

Good Evening

Goeienaand
سلام علیکم

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
گڈ آفٹر نون

Good Morning

goeie more
گڈ مارننگ

Please

asseblief
براہ مہربانی

Sorry

jammer
معاف کرنا

Bye

Totsiens
الوداع

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
مجھے تم سے محبت

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
معاف کیجئے گا

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Dakhini

Where They Speak

-
India

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
Hyderabadi Urdu

Where They Speak

-
India

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.0069,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Rekhta

Where They Speak

Namibia
South Asia

How Many People Speak

7.0069,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

33
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million104.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million61.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million43.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
اُردُو

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Bihari

French Name

afrikaans
ourdou

German Name

Afrikaans
Urdu

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˈʊrd̪u]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
Urdu-speaking people

History

Origin

17th Century
12th Century CE

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Western
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
Modern Standard Urdu

Language Position

2320
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Urdu

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
ur

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
urd

ISO 639 2/B

afr
urd

ISO 639 3

afr
urd

ISO 639 6

afrs
urd

Glottocode

afri1274
urdu1245

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
59-AAF-q

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
-

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Fusional

Afrikaans and Urdu Alphabets

Afrikaans and Urdu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and Urdu. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Urdu Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Afrikaans and Urdu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and Urdu 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 Urdu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and Urdu are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Afrikaans and Urdu Speaking population

Afrikaans and Urdu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Urdu languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Urdu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 %. 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 Urdu on Afrikaans vs Urdu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Urdu Language Codes

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