Language code: af

Technical information about ISO 639 language code af

Technical information about af language code (Afrikaans) is available below.

ISO code

af

Language

Official

Afrikaans

Native

Afrikaans

Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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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

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Afrikaans speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

af-NA Afrikaans (Namibia)

af-ZA Afrikaans (South Africa)

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