Countries
South Africa
China
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
China
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Uzbek Language
Derived From
Dutch Language
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3236
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
159
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1727
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
Dankie
rakhmat
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
goeie nag
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
goeie more
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
asseblief
birdam
Sorry
jammer
kachurung
Bye
Totsiens
Khayr khosh
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Turpan
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Hotan
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Namibia
China
How Many People Speak
7.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
37
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
afrikaans
ouïgour
German Name
Afrikaans
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Uyghur
Origin
17th Century
11
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Uyghur
Language Position
2398
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
af
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
uig
ISO 639 2/B
afr
uig
ISO 639 3
afr
uig
ISO 639 6
afrs
uig
Glottocode
afri1274
uigh1240
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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