Language comparison
Afrikaans vs Dutch
Both belong to the Indo-European family; their closest common node in the Glottolog tree: Global Dutch.
Relatedness is not mutual intelligibility: languages of one branch can be unintelligible to each other, while very close ones (such as Serbian and Croatian) differ mainly in status and script. That is why we give no “similarity percentage”.
Afrikaans
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- Macro-Dutch
- Middle-Modern Dutch
- Modern Dutch
- Global Dutch
- Afrikaansic
- Afrikaans
- Script
- Latin
- Hello / thank you
- hallo / dankie
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 10.0 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Co-official (1)
- South Africa
- Without status
- widely used in 1 country, a minority language in 1 country
Dutch
Nederlands
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- Macro-Dutch
- Middle-Modern Dutch
- Modern Dutch
- Global Dutch
- Dutch
- Script
- Latin
- Hello / thank you
- hallo / dank je wel
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 33 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Official (2)
- Netherlands, Suriname
- Co-official (4)
- Belgium, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten
- Without status
- a minority language in 3 countries
Where they are spoken
- Afrikaans 2
- Dutch 6
Countries where the language has a legal status or is known by at least 10% of the population (CLDR); countries where it is only a minority language are not shown.