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🇿🇦 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.
Download 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.
DownloadWhat'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