Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Lesotho, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Botswana, Lesotho
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Xhosa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Molo
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
Ndiyabulela
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Unjani
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Ulale kakuhle
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Ubusuku obuhle
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Uben' emva kwemini entle
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Molo
  
Please
Please
  
Ndicela
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Ndicela uxolo
  
Bye
Bye
  
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Ndiyakuthanda
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Gcaleka
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Thembu
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Hlubi
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
20.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
11.00 million
  
21
Native Name
English
  
isiXhosa
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
  
French Name
anglais
  
xhosa
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Xhosa-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
isiXhosa
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Signed Xhosa
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
xh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
xho
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
xho
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
xho
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
xhos1239
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
99-AUT-fa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Not Available