Countries
South Africa
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
India
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Central Hindi Directorate
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Urdu
Derived From
Dutch Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3244
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1511
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1733
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
hallo
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Dankie
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
goeie nag
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
goeie more
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
asseblief
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
jammer
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
Totsiens
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Khariboli
Where They Speak
-
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Marwari
Where They Speak
-
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Namibia
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
7.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
afrikaans
hindi
German Name
Afrikaans
Hindi
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Hindustani people
Origin
17th Century
7th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Western
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Hindi
Language Position
235
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
hin
ISO 639 2/B
afr
hin
ISO 639 3
afr
hin
ISO 639 6
afrs
hins
Glottocode
afri1274
hind1269
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic