Hallo!
say it: “HAH-lo”
Afrikaans
in its own words: Afrikaans
- Speakers
- 17 million (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Germanic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- South Africa (regional)
Fun fact
It developed from the Dutch dialects of Cape settlers from the 17th century on and was officially recognized as a separate standard language in 1925.