Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
-
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Dutch Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5232
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1615
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3617
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
hallo
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Dankie
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
goeie nag
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
Goeie middag
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
goeie more
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
asseblief
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
jammer
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
Totsiens
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Not present
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
140,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
140,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
-
Namibia
How Many People Speak
140,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
03
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.10 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Cape Dutch
French Name
sanskrit
afrikaans
German Name
Sanskrit
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Afrikaners
Origin
2000 B.C.
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
afr
ISO 639 2/B
san
afr
ISO 639 3
san
afr
ISO 639 6
san
afrs
Glottocode
sans1269
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic