Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
South Africa
National Language
China, Taiwan
South Africa
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
Japanese and Korean Languages
Dutch Language
Derived From
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Dutch Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Dankie
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
goeie nag
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Goeie middag
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
goeie more
Please
请 (Qǐng)
asseblief
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Totsiens
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
-
Dialect 2
Wu
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
-
Dialect 3
Yue
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Namibia
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Cape Dutch
French Name
chinois
afrikaans
German Name
Chinesisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Origin
1250 BC
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Afrikaans
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
sini1245
afri1274
Linguasphere
79-AAA
52-ACB-ba
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic
Chinese and Afrikaans Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Afrikaans language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Chinese vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Afrikaans Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.