Afrikaans
Pronounce [afriˈkɑːns]
Country South Africa, Namibia
Ethnicity Afrikaners
Cape Coloureds
Basters
Cape Malay
Griqua
Speakers
7.2 million (2016)
10.3 million L2 speakers in South Africa (2002)
Family
Early Forms
Writing
Sign Lang.
Signed Afrikaans
AreaPrincipally Pretoria and Bloemfontein. Cape Malays mainly in Cape Town; some in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, and Port Elizabeth. Also in Australia, Botswana, Canada, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, New Zealand, Swaziland, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Language Sites
ISO 639-1 af
ISO 639-2 afr
ISO 639-3 afr
Glottolog afri1274
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Regions shaded dark blue represent areas of concentrated Afrikaans-speaking communities
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