1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.7 National Language
1.8 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
1.9 Speaking Continents
Central America, North America
Africa
1.10 Minority Language
1.11 Regulated By
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
Not Available
1.12 Interesting Facts
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
- 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.
1.13 Similar To
French Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.14 Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
4.2 Phonology
4.2.1 How Many Vowels
4.3.3 How Many Consonants
4.6 Scripts
4.7 Writing Direction
Not Available
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4.8 Hard to Learn
4.8.1 Language Levels
5.1.1 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
6.4 Good Night
6.5 Good Evening
6.6 Good Afternoon
Bon apre-midi
Uben' emva kwemini entle
6.7 Good Morning
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
Babay
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
6.11 I Love You
Mwen renmen w
Ndiyakuthanda
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
Northern Haitian Creole
Gcaleka
7.1.1 Where They Speak
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
7.3 Dialect 2
Central Haitian Creole
Thembu
7.3.1 Where They Speak
Port-au-Prince
South Africa
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
8.4 Dialect 3
Southern Haitian Creole
Hlubi
8.4.1 Where They Speak
8.4.2 How Many People Speak
8.5 Total No. Of Dialects
10 How Many People Speak
10.1 How Many People Speak?
9.60 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
10.2 Speaking Population
10.3 Native Speakers
9.60 million8.20 million
0.13
873
10.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.3.2 Native Name
10.3.3 Alternative Names
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
10.3.4 French Name
haïtien; créole haïtien
xhosa
10.3.5 German Name
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
Xhosa-Sprache
10.4 Pronunciation
10.5 Ethnicity
Haitians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
11 History
11.1 Origin
17th Century
16th Century
11.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
11.2.2 Branch
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
11.3.2 Standard Forms
11.3.3 Language Position
11.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Xhosa
11.4 Scope
12 Code
12.1 ISO 639 1
12.2 ISO 639 2
12.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
12.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
12.3 ISO 639 3
12.4 ISO 639 6
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12.5 Glottocode
12.6 Linguasphere
12.7 Types of Language
12.7.1 Language Type
12.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
12.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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