Countries
India, Pakistan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Jammu and Kashmir, India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
-
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
-
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
- 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
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Dutch Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4832
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1215
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3617
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
42 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ke aal aee
hallo
Thank You
dhanwaad
Dankie
How Are You?
kiyaan oo ji
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
shub ratri
goeie nag
Good Evening
shub ratri
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
शुभ अपराह्न
Goeie middag
Good Morning
su prabat
goeie more
Please
kripya
asseblief
Sorry
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
jammer
Bye
changa ji pher
Totsiens
I Love You
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
gustakhi maaf
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Jaunsari
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Himachal Pradesh, India
-
How Many People Speak
100,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kullu
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
-
How Many People Speak
110,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hinduri
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
Namibia
How Many People Speak
30,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.30 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
डोगरी
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
Cape Dutch
French Name
dogri
afrikaans
German Name
Dogri
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ˈd̪oːɡri]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Dogras
Afrikaners
Origin
1971
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Dogri
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
3223
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Dogri
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
doi
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
doi
afr
ISO 639 2/B
doi
afr
ISO 639 3
doi
afr
ISO 639 6
doi
afrs
Glottocode
indo1311
afri1274
Linguasphere
59-AAA
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic