Countries
Fiji, India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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
Urdu
Dutch Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4432
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1115
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3317
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
hallo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
Dankie
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
goeie nag
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Goeie middag
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
goeie more
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
asseblief
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
jammer
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
Totsiens
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
-
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Marwari
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
Namibia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Cape Dutch
French Name
hindi
afrikaans
German Name
Hindi
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Afrikaners
Origin
7th Century
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
523
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
afr
ISO 639 2/B
hin
afr
ISO 639 3
hin
afr
ISO 639 6
hins
afrs
Glottocode
hind1269
afri1274
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic