Afrikaans
Also known as
- Afrikaans language
Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from 17th century Dutch and classified as Low Franconian Germanic, mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Angola, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Zambia and Argentina. Due to emigration and migrant labour, there are possibly over 100,000 Afrikaans speakers in the United Kingdom, with other substantial communities found in Brussels, Amsterdam, Perth, Mount Isa, Toronto and Auckland. It is the primary...
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Language
| Main Country |
| Dialects |
| Language Family |
| Writing System |
| Region |
| ISO 639-3 Code |
- afr
| ISO 639-2 Code |
| ISO 639-1 Code |
- aa
| Rosetta Project Code |
| Spoken in countries |
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