Indo-European · East Africa · Southern Africa

Afrikaans

Not endangered

Afrikaans is documented so far only to the level of long grammar.

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FamilyIndo-European
StatusNot endangered
DocumentationLong grammar
ISO 639-3afr
Glottocodeafri1274

Spoken in Botswana · Mozambique · Namibia · South Africa · Zambia · Zimbabwe

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Indo-European's family tree with Afrikaans.

  1. Oorlams

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  2. Cameroon Pidgin

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  3. English

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  4. Ghanaian Pidgin English

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  5. Krio

    Not endangered
    Grammar

  6. Nigerian Pidgin

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  7. Pichi

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  8. Angolar

    Threatened
    Long grammar

Reference data for Afrikaans from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)