Countries
South Africa
Assam, India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
South Africa
Assam, India
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
-
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
-
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
-
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.
- In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
- Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language
Derived From
Dutch Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3245
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1520
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1725
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks34 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
hallo
नमस्कार
Thank You
Dankie
धन्यवाद
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Nungni khabora ma?
Good Night
goeie nag
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
बोडो
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
अन्धानि बार
Good Morning
goeie more
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)
Please
asseblief
अननानै (Onnanwi)
Sorry
jammer
दु:खित
Bye
Totsiens
Lwrbw
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
दु:खित
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect
Where They Speak
-
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect
Where They Speak
-
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect
Where They Speak
Namibia
Assam, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
7.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million0.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million0.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
बड़ो (boṛo)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci
French Name
afrikaans
bodo
German Name
Afrikaans
Bodo
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[bɔɽo]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)
Origin
17th Century
1913
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
-
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
-
Language Position
2330
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Bodo
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
br
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
brx
ISO 639 2/B
afr
brx
ISO 639 3
afr
brx
ISO 639 6
afrs
brx
Glottocode
afri1274
bodo1269
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
59-AAB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
-