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Technical information about ISO 639 language code af
The table below provides technical details for the Afrikaans language, designated by the af
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Afrikaans belongs to the Indo-European family of languages, specifically to the Germanic and West Germanic subgroup. It is officially used in South Africa and is recognized as a minority language in Namibia. It is written in the Latin script. It is estimated that there are more than 7 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Afrikaans speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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