Afrikaans reference data

Frequency-banded vocabulary and a downloadable Anki deck, built from a blend of Afrikaans Wikipedia (written) and OpenSubtitles (spoken). The most complete language pack.

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APKG 2.4 MB · CC BY-SA 4.0

Anki deck — frequency-banded

9,066 cards across six frequency sub-decks (Core → Marginal). Afrikaans → English recognition cards. Glosses from Wiktionary.

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CSV 15 MB · CC BY-SA 4.0

Word frequency list

443,747 words ranked by Afrikaans Wikipedia frequency, with raw counts, Zipf scores, and a proper-noun flag.

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What's inside

37.6M tokens · af.wikipedia Written corpus

0.83M tokens · OpenSubtitles Spoken corpus

9,066 Anki cards

443,747 words Frequency list

Anki deck — cards per frequency band

The deck is split into six sub-decks by blended frequency. Study the most common words first (Core), then work down.

Core 220

Very Common 1,175

Common 2,529

Mid 2,073

Rare 1,163

Marginal 1,906

Provenance & licensing

Built entirely from open data — nothing here is derived from copyrighted dictionaries. See the methodology for how frequency drives vocabulary learning in Lector.

Word frequencies: Afrikaans Wikipedia (37.6M tokens) blended with OpenSubtitles (0.83M tokens) — Zipf-averaged so spoken vocabulary isn't under-rated by the encyclopedic register. CC BY-SA 4.0 / OPUS
Glosses (definitions): Afrikaans Wiktionary, extracted via kaikki.org. CC BY-SA 4.0