1 Countries
1.1 Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
East Asia, European Union
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
1.7 Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
- 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
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Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
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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
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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
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
Bonan nokton
Ulale kakuhle
3.5 Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!
Ndicela uxolo
3.10 Bye
Ĝis poste
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
Mi amas vin
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
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?
2.20 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.20 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
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
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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