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Afrikaans

How many syllables in Afrikaans?

  3 syllables

Divide Afrikaans into syllables:   Af-ri-kaans
How to say Afrikaans:

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What rhymes with Afrikaans

1 syllable
  • bronze
  • dons
  • hons
  • Johns
  • pons
  • swans
  • cons
  • fons
  • john's
  • ons
  • spawns
2 syllables
  • Alphonse
  • pecans
  • salons
  • batons
  • run-ons
3 syllables
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