1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
France, Spain
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
1.7 Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Eskerrik asko
Ndiyabulela
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Arratsalde on
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Agur
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
Maite zaitut
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
Gcaleka
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
68,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
7.20 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.20 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Basque people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Vasconic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Xhosa
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available