Countries
South Africa
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Malaysia
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Thailand
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Dutch Language
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3226
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
156
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1724
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Hai
Thank You
Dankie
terima kasih
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Apa khabar?
Good Night
goeie nag
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
goeie more
Selamat pagi
Please
asseblief
sila
Sorry
jammer
maaf
Bye
Totsiens
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
-
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Pekal
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Musi
Where They Speak
Namibia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
7.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
324
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %1.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.10 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
afrikaans
malais
German Name
Afrikaans
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Malaysian people
Origin
17th Century
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
2354
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
msa
ISO 639 2/B
afr
may
ISO 639 3
afr
zsm
ISO 639 6
afrs
may
Glottocode
afri1274
stan1306
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Agglutinative