Language code: af
Technical information about ISO 639 language code af
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The table below provides technical details for the Afrikaans language, designated by the af code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Afrikaans Native Afrikaans |
| Family | West Germanic |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Cape AfrikaansOrange River AfrikaansEastern Cape Afrikaans |
| Related languages | DutchWest FlemishZeelandicLow GermanWest Frisian |
| Key facts | Developed from 17th-century Dutch spoken at the Cape ColonyVocabulary shows influence from Malay, Khoisan, Portuguese and Bantu languagesStandardised in the early 20th century, making it one of the youngest Germanic languagesGrammar is highly analytic, with no grammatical gender or case inflectionRemains largely mutually intelligible with Dutch. |
| Sample phrase | Hallo, hoe gaan dit? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
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.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Afrikaans speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
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- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and Statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- FAQ
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ