Afrikaans speaking countries
Afrikaans is one out of eleven official languages in South Africa and is spoken in Namibia as monther tongue by a part of the population. The Afrikaans language (native name: Afrikaans) has its roots in the Indo-European language family.With 8.09 million native speakers, Afrikaans has the highest prevalence in South Africa. A total of about 8.4 million people worldwide speak Afrikaans as their mother tongue.
| Country | Region | Official language | Distribution | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | Southern Africa | yes | 13.5 % | 8,086,000 |
| Namibia | Southern Africa | no | 10.4 % | 267,000 |
Unless otherwise described in the text, this page is about native speakers — not the total number of speakers. How many people understand or speak Afrikaans as a subsequently learned language is not the subject of this page. Countries where native speakers make up only a few thousand, or even a few hundred people, or countries with a percentage well below 1% are unlikely to be listed here.