1 Countries
1.2 Countries
1.3 Total No. Of Countries
1.4 National Language
1.5 Second Language
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Lesotho, South Africa
1.6 Speaking Continents
1.7 Minority Language
Not Available
Botswana, Lesotho
1.8 Regulated By
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1.10 Interesting Facts
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- 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.
1.12 Similar To
Persian
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.13 Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
4.3 Phonology
4.3.1 How Many Vowels
4.5.2 How Many Consonants
4.6 Scripts
4.7 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, NA
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4.8 Hard to Learn
4.8.1 Language Levels
4.14.2 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
5.3 How Are You?
5.4 Good Night
5.5 Good Evening
Good evening
Ubusuku obuhle
5.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
5.7 Good Morning
5.8 Please
5.9 Sorry
5.10 Bye
5.11 I Love You
5.12 Excuse Me
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.1.1 Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq, Western Iran
South Africa
7.1.1 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
10.2 Dialect 2
10.2.2 Where They Speak
10.2.3 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
10.5 Dialect 3
10.5.1 Where They Speak
10.5.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
10.8 Total No. Of Dialects
11 How Many People Speak
11.1 How Many People Speak?
0.00 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
13.2 Speaking Population
13.4 Native Speakers
0.00 million8.20 million
0.13
873
13.6.1 Second Language Speakers
89.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
13.7.2 Native Name
13.7.3 Alternative Names
Lori, Luri, Luristani
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
13.7.4 French Name
13.7.5 German Name
Not Available
Xhosa-Sprache
13.8 Pronunciation
13.9 Ethnicity
14 History
14.1 Origin
14.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
14.2.1 Subgroup
14.2.2 Branch
14.3 Language Forms
14.3.1 Early Forms
14.3.2 Standard Forms
14.3.3 Language Position
16.3.4 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Xhosa
16.4 Scope
17 Code
17.1 ISO 639 1
17.2 ISO 639 2
17.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
17.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
17.3 ISO 639 3
17.4 ISO 639 6
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17.5 Glottocode
17.6 Linguasphere
17.8 Types of Language
17.8.1 Language Type
18.1.1 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
18.2.2 Language Morphological Typology
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