Countries
South Africa
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Hawaii
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Dutch Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3228
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
158
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1720
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
hallo
您好
Thank You
Dankie
谢谢
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
你好吗?
Good Night
goeie nag
晚安
Good Evening
Goeienaand
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
下午好
Good Morning
goeie more
早上好
Please
asseblief
请
Sorry
jammer
遗憾
Bye
Totsiens
再见
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
我爱你
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
原谅我
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
-
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Xiguan
Where They Speak
-
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Namibia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
7.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
afrikaans
cantonais
German Name
Afrikaans
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Han Chinese
Origin
17th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
231
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
af
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
yue
ISO 639 2/B
afr
yue
ISO 639 3
afr
No data available
ISO 639 6
afrs
yue
Glottocode
afri1274
cant1236
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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