Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Germany
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Lesotho, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Botswana, Lesotho
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Xhosa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Molo
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Ndiyabulela
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Unjani
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Ulale kakuhle
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Ubusuku obuhle
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Uben' emva kwemini entle
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Molo
  
Please
bitte
  
Ndicela
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Ndicela uxolo
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Ndiyakuthanda
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Gcaleka
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Thembu
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Hlubi
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
20.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
11.00 million
  
21
Native Name
Deutsch
  
isiXhosa
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
  
French Name
allemand
  
xhosa
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Xhosa-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Western
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
isiXhosa
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Signed Xhosa
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
xh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
xho
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
xho
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
xho
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
xhos1239
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
99-AUT-fa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
German and Xhosa Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where German and Xhosa greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Xhosa language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Xhosa word for "Thank You" is Ndiyabulela. Find more of such common German Greetings and Xhosa Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Xhosa Difficulty
The German vs Xhosa difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Xhosa Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare German and Xhosa are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Xhosa, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Xhosa time required is 44 weeks.