Countries
South Africa
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
South Africa
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Dutch Language
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Derived From
Dutch Language
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Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
Dankie
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
goeie nag
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
goeie more
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
asseblief
请 (Qǐng)
Bye
Not Available
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Not Available
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Wu
Where They Speak
Not Available
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Yue
Where They Speak
Namibia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
Afrikaans
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
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French Name
afrikaans
chinois
German Name
Afrikaans
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
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Origin
17th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Western
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Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Chinese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
afrs
Not Available
Glottocode
afri1274
sini1245
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Analytic, Isolating
Afrikaans and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Afrikaans and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Chinese language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Chinese Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Afrikaans and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.