Countries
South Africa
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
National Language
South Africa
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Dutch Language
German and English Languages
Derived From
Dutch Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
Dankie
dankjewel
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
goeie nag
goede Nacht
Good Evening
Goeienaand
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
goedemiddag
Good Morning
goeie more
goedemorgen
Please
asseblief
alsjeblieft
Bye
Not Available
vaarwel
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
pardon
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Gronings
Where They Speak
Not Available
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Not Available
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Namibia
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
Afrikaans
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
afrikaans
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Afrikaans
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Dutch people
Origin
17th Century
AD 450-500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Germanic
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Dutch
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
afrs
Not Available
Glottocode
afri1274
mode1257
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
52-ACB-a
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Synthetic
Afrikaans and Dutch 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 Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Dutch language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Dutch Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Dutch 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 Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.