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Japanese and Afrikaans

Countries

Countries

Japan
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Japan
South Africa

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Africa

Minority Language

Palau
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee

Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • 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

Korean Language
Dutch Language

Derived From

-
Dutch Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9932
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

515
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1417
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
hallo

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Dankie

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Hoe gaan dit

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
goeie nag

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Goeienaand

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Goeie middag

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
goeie more

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
asseblief

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
jammer

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Totsiens

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Ek het jou lief

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Verskoon my

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Kaapse Afrikaans

Where They Speak

Kagawa
-

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Oranjeriverafrikaans

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
-

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.007,700,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Baster Afrikaans

Where They Speak

kansai
Namibia

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.007.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

313
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million19.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million7.10 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million10.30 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
Afrikaans

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Cape Dutch

French Name

japonais
afrikaans

German Name

Japanisch
Afrikaans

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Afrikaners

History

Origin

1185
17th Century

Language Family

Japonic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch

Standard Forms

Japanese
Standard Afrikaans

Language Position

823
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
af

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
afr

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
afr

ISO 639 3

jpn
afr

ISO 639 6

jpn
afrs

Glottocode

nucl1643
afri1274

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
52-ACB-ba

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic

Japanese and Afrikaans Alphabets

Japanese and Afrikaans Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Afrikaans. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Japanese and Afrikaans languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Afrikaans languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Afrikaans greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Afrikaans are Most Spoken Languages.

All Japanese 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 Japanese and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of Japanese and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Japanese are spoken in different Japanese Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Japanese vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Japanese dialects include: Sanuki, Hakata. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Japanese and Afrikaans Speaking population

Japanese and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Afrikaans on Japanese vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Afrikaans Language Codes

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