Countries
Countries
South Africa
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Japan
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Palau
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Korean Language
Derived From
Dutch Language
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3299
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1714
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
hallo
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Dankie
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
goeie nag
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
goeie more
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
asseblief
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
jammer
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Totsiens
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Sanuki
Where They Speak
-
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Hakata
Where They Speak
-
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Kansai
Where They Speak
Namibia
kansai
How Many People Speak
7.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
331
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Afrikaans
日本語
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Nihongo
French Name
afrikaans
japonais
German Name
Afrikaans
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Japanese (Yamato)
History
Origin
17th Century
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Japanese
Language Position
238
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
af
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
afr
jpn
ISO 639 3
afr
jpn
ISO 639 6
afrs
jpn
Glottocode
afri1274
nucl1643
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Agglutinative, Synthetic