Native Xhosa Speakers
You will get to know second language speakers of Xhosa language as well as native Xhosa Speakers under how many people speak Xhosa language. There is an estimate that there are almost 8.20 million native speakers of Xhosa language. Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers and on other hand some languages have small population of native speakers. 11.00 million population speak Xhosa as second language where Xhosa is not the native language of the speaker. The number of second language speakers mentioned in how many people speak Xhosa are those whose native language is minority language of country in which they live. They learn the second language because it is official language of the country where they reside.
Native name of Xhosa
How many people speak Xhosa serves you with native name of Xhosa language. The native name of Xhosa is isiXhosa. Native names are the local names for the languages. The native names of the languages are used by the native speakers of that language. The alternative names of Xhosa are “Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa. The German and French names for Xhosa language is as follows:
- French Name for Xhosa: xhosa.
- German Name for Xhosa: Xhosa-Sprache.
In some applications, instead of using language names they use language codes, check out the language code of Xhosa on
Xhosa Language Codes.