Countries
South Africa
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
South Africa
Lithuania
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Poland
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Latvian
Derived From
Dutch Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3232
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1720
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
hallo
Sveiki
Thank You
Dankie
Ačiū
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
goeie nag
Labanakt
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Laba diena
Good Morning
goeie more
Labas rytas
Please
asseblief
Prašom
Sorry
jammer
atsiprašau
Bye
Totsiens
Ate
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Samogitian
Where They Speak
-
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
-
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Curonian
Where They Speak
Namibia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
7.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
afrikaans
lituanien
German Name
Afrikaans
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Lithuanians
Origin
17th Century
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Lithuanian
Language Position
2344
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
lit
ISO 639 2/B
afr
lit
ISO 639 3
afr
lit
ISO 639 6
afrs
lit
Glottocode
afri1274
lith1251
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Synthetic