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About Xhosa Language



Countries
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Countries
South Africa 0

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
South Africa 0

Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa 0

Speaking Continents
Africa 0

Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho 0

Regulated By
Not Available 0

Interesting Facts
  • Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
  • The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
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Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele 0

Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Xhosa-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
53 32

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
10 7

How Many Consonants
43 32

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Not Available 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings
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Hello
Molo 0

Thank You
Ndiyabulela 0

How Are You?
Unjani 0

Good Night
Ulale kakuhle 0

Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle 0

Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle 0

Good Morning
Molo 0

Please
Ndicela 0

Sorry
Ndicela uxolo 0

Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle 0

I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda 0

Excuse Me
Uxolo 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Gcaleka 0

Where They Speak
South Africa 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 2
Thembu 0

Where They Speak
South Africa 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Hlubi 0

Where They Speak
South Africa 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
9 9

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million 42

Speaking Population
0.11 % 53

Native Speakers
8.20 million 52

Second Language Speakers
11.00 million 21

Native Name
isiXhosa 0

Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa 0

French Name
xhosa 0

German Name
Xhosa-Sprache 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca 0

History
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Origin
16th Century 0

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family 0

Subgroup
Benue-Congo 0

Branch
Bantu 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
No early forms 0

Standard Forms
isiXhosa 0

Language Position
Not Available 0

Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
xh 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
xho 0

ISO 639 2/B
xho 0

ISO 639 3
xho 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
xhos1239 0

Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object 0

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available 0

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Know Alphabets in Xhosa

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Xhosa Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Xhosa Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Xhosa. Xhosa phonology gives Xhosa vowels and Xhosa consonants. There are 10 vowels and 43 consonants in Xhosa language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Xhosa is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Xhosa language is given in detail in this section.

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All Xhosa countries

Want to explore all Xhosa countries? About Xhosa language serves you with all Xhosa Speaking Countries. Countries that use Xhosa as official language are called as Xhosa countries.

  • Countries that use Xhosa as their National Language are: South Africa.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Xhosa as second language are: Lesotho, South Africa.

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Learn Xhosa greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Xhosa Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Xhosa language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Xhosa language.Learn Xhosa greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Molo
  • Thank you: Ndiyabulela
  • Good Morning: Molo
  • Good Evening: Ubusuku obuhle
  • Good Afternoon: Uben' emva kwemini entle

All Xhosa Language Codes

Get to know all Xhosa language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Xhosa Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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