Language · Indo-European
Afrikaans
Official or co-official in 1 country. Listed in 3 countries.
Endangerment: not endangered according to Glottolog (AES, CC BY 4.0)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 10.0 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Place in the family tree
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- Macro-Dutch
- Middle-Modern Dutch
- Modern Dutch
- Global Dutch
- Afrikaansic
- Afrikaans
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- Co-official 1
- Widely used 1
- Minority 1
Co-official
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South Africa
13%
7.9 million
The most common home language in the Western and Northern Cape.
Legal basis: Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Act, 2023 (Act No. 3 of 2023) – Government Gazette No. 49041, 27 July 2023, s. 1
Widely used
- Namibia 75% 2.1 million
Minority
- Botswana 0.2% 5.9 thousand