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Countries

Countries

Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

France, Spain
South Africa

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Regulated By

Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee

Interesting Facts

  • The Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.

Similar To

Spanish
Dutch Language

Derived From

-
Dutch Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2732
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

515
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2117
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kaixo
hallo

Thank You

Eskerrik asko
Dankie

How Are You?

Zer moduz?
Hoe gaan dit

Good Night

Gabon
goeie nag

Good Evening

Arratsalde on
Goeienaand

Good Afternoon

Arratsalde on
Goeie middag

Good Morning

Egun on
goeie more

Please

Mesedez
asseblief

Sorry

Barkatu
jammer

Bye

Agur
Totsiens

I Love You

Maite zaitut
Ek het jou lief

Excuse Me

Barkatu
Verskoon my

Dialects

Dialect 1

Navarro-Lapurdian
Kaapse Afrikaans

Where They Speak

France
-

How Many People Speak

68,000.007,700,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Souletin
Oranjeriverafrikaans

Where They Speak

France, Soule, Spain
-

How Many People Speak

8,700.007,700,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Biscayan
Baster Afrikaans

Where They Speak

Spain
Namibia

How Many People Speak

750,000.007.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

63
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.20 million19.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.12 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.20 million7.10 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million10.30 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Euskara
Afrikaans

Alternative Names

Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Cape Dutch

French Name

basque
afrikaans

German Name

Baskisch
Afrikaans

Pronunciation

[bɑːsk]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]

Ethnicity

Basque people
Afrikaners

History

Origin

c. 1000
17th Century

Language Family

Vasconic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch

Standard Forms

Basque
Standard Afrikaans

Language Position

3023
1 120
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Signed Forms

Basque Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)

Scope

-
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

eu
af

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

eus
afr

ISO 639 2/B

baq
afr

ISO 639 3

eus
afr

ISO 639 6

eus
afrs

Glottocode

basq1248
afri1274

Linguasphere

40-AAA-a
52-ACB-ba

Types of Language

Language Type

-
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Analytic

Basque and Afrikaans Alphabets

Basque and Afrikaans Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Basque and Afrikaans. In Basque Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Basque and Afrikaans languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Basque and Afrikaans languages. The Basque phonology consist Basque vowels and Basque consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Basque greetings vs Afrikaans greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Basque and Afrikaans are Most Spoken Languages.

All Basque and Afrikaans Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Basque and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of Basque and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Basque are spoken in different Basque Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Basque vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Basque dialects include: Navarro-Lapurdian, Souletin. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Basque and Afrikaans Speaking population

Basque and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Basque and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Basque and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Basque and Afrikaans on Basque vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Basque and Afrikaans Language Codes

Basque and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Basque and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.