1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Central America, North America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
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1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
French Language
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
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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
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Bon apre-midi
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Babay
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
Mwen renmen w
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Haitian Creole
Gcaleka
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Central Haitian Creole
Thembu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Port-au-Prince
South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Haitian Creole
Hlubi
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?
9.60 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
9.60 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
haïtien; créole haïtien
xhosa
5.3.5 German Name
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
Xhosa-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Haitians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
16th Century
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
No early forms
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
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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
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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