Locale Af Za
Use when working with the Afrikaans (South Africa) locale (`af-ZA`) — its endonym Afrikaans (Suid-Afrika), Latin script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.
Reference data for the Afrikaans (South Africa) locale — endonym Afrikaans (Suid-Afrika), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).
Identifiers
- BCP 47 tag:
af-ZA - ISO 639-1:
af - ISO 639-3:
afr - Script: Latn (Latin)
- Region: ZA (South Africa)
- Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)
Speakers (approximate)
- L1 (native): 7,000,000
- L2 (additional): 10,000,000
- L1+L2 (total): 17,000,000
Base locale
This is a regional variant of Locale Af 001 (Afrikaans), the base/macro locale for this language.
Pluralization
CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).
- one —
n = 1(e.g. 1) - other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)
See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.
Translating into this locale
Apply Locale Af 001 to Afrikaans in South Africa.
- Context: Afrikaans is one of eleven official languages; most readers also know English, so code-switching is common in speech. In formal text keep the Afrikaans consistent and gloss English terms only when needed.
- Formats: rand ("R12,50"), day-month-year, 24-hour clock, decimal comma.
- Register: "u" for public and formal text; "jy" for friendly consumer text.
Common pitfalls
- Mixing Afrikaans and English in formal copy.
- Using Dutch forms for loanwords.
- The general pitfalls in Locale Af 001 also apply.
Learn more
- Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
- Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
- Die Afrikaanse Taalkommissie