Countries
Countries
South Africa
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
17
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Azerbaijan, Gambia
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
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
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.
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Turkish
Derived From
Dutch Language
Osmanly language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3232
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
159
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1723
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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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Greetings
Hello
hallo
Salam
Thank You
Dankie
Təşəkkür edirəm
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
necəsən
Good Night
goeie nag
yaxşı gecə
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Axşamınız xeyir
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Günortanız Xeyir
Good Morning
goeie more
Sabahınız xeyir
Please
asseblief
lütfən
Sorry
jammer
üzr
Bye
Totsiens
xudafiz
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Mən səni sevirəm
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Bağışlayın
Dialects
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Derbent
Where They Speak
-
Russia
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0037,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Gazakh
Where They Speak
-
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0037,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Baku
Where They Speak
Namibia
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
7.0037.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
333
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million26.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.34 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
French Name
afrikaans
azéri
German Name
Afrikaans
Aserbeidschanisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Azerbaijani
History
Origin
17th Century
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Turkic
Branch
Western
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Azerbaijani
Language Position
2338
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Azerbaijani
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
af
az
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
aze
ISO 639 2/B
afr
aze
ISO 639 3
afr
aze
ISO 639 6
afrs
aze
Glottocode
afri1274
azer1255
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Agglutinative