List of countries and territories where Afrikaans or Dutch are official languages information
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Legal statuses Afrikaans and Dutch:
Countries where Dutch is the majority language
Countries where Dutch is an official or recognized language
Countries where Afrikaans is an official or recognized language
Dutch is a former official or recognized language of these countries
Percentages of Afrikaans and Dutch speakers (assuming a rounded total of 46 million) worldwide.
Native Dutch (47.8%)
Native Afrikaans (15.5%)
Afrikaans as second language (22.4%)
Dutch as second language (14.3%)
The following is a list of the countries and territories where Afrikaans or Dutch are official languages. It includes countries, which have Afrikaans and/or Dutch as (one of) their nationwide official language(s), as well as dependent territories with Afrikaans and/or Dutch as a co-official language.
Worldwide, Afrikaans and Dutch as native or second language are spoken by approximately 46 million people. There is a high degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages,[1][2][3] particularly in written form.[4][5][6] As an estimated 90 to 95% of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin,[7][8][9] there are few lexical differences between the two languages;[10] however, Afrikaans has a considerably more regular morphology, grammar, and spelling.[1][5]
^ abHolm, Jdohn A. (1989). Pidgins and Creoles: References survey. Cambridge University Press. p. 338. ISBN 9780521359405. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^Baker, Colin; Prys Jones, Sylvia (1997). Encyclopedia of bilingualism and bilingual education. Multilingual Matters Ltd. p. 302. ISBN 9781853593628. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^Egil Breivik, Leiv; Håkon Jahr, Ernst (1987). Language change: contributions to the study of its causes. Walter de Gruyter. p. 232. ISBN 9783110119954. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^Sebba, Mark (2007). Spelling and society: the culture and politics of orthography around the world. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139462020. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^ abSebba, Mark (1997). Contact languages: pidgins and creoles. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780312175719. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^Gooskens, Charlotte (2007). "The Contribution of Linguistic Factors to the Intelligibility of Closely Related Languages" (PDF). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Volume 28, Issue 6 November 2007. University of Groningen. pp. 445–467. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^Mesthrie, Rajend (1995). Language and Social History: Studies in South African Sociolinguistics. New Africa Books. p. 214. ISBN 9780864862808. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
^Brachin, Pierre; Vincent, Paul (1985). The Dutch Language: A Survey. Brill Archive. p. 132. ISBN 9004075933. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
^Mesthrie, Rajend (2002). Language in South Africa. Cambridge University Press. p. 205. ISBN 9780521791052. Retrieved 2010-05-18.
^Sebba 1997, p. 161
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