Countries
South Africa
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
111
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Turkey
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
Dutch Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3229
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
158
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1721
9
60
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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
Merhaba
Thank You
Dankie
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Nasılsın?
Good Night
goeie nag
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
Goeienaand
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Tünaydın
Good Morning
goeie more
günaydın
Please
asseblief
lütfen
Sorry
jammer
üzgünüm
Bye
Totsiens
Hoşçakal
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
-
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
-
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Namibia
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
7.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
afrikaans
turc
German Name
Afrikaans
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Turkish
Origin
17th Century
c. 1350
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Turkic
Branch
Western
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
2319
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
tur
ISO 639 2/B
afr
tur
ISO 639 3
afr
tur
ISO 639 6
afrs
tur
Glottocode
afri1274
nucl1301
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Synthetic