Russian and Xhosa Speaking countries

Russian and Xhosa as Minority Language

In Russian and Xhosa speaking countries you will get the countries which have Russian and Xhosa as minority language. The language which is spoken by minority of population in the country is called as minority language.

If you want to compare Russian and Xhosa dialects, then you can go to Russian vs Xhosa Dialects. Some of the official languages are also considered as minority languages.

Russian and Xhosa Regulators

Russian and Xhosa speaking countries provide you Russian and Xhosa regulators which are the official organizations that regulate them. Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences regulates Russian language.Xhosa is not regulated. Also get to learn, Russian and Xhosa Language History.

Russian and Xhosa Continents

Thinking about Russian and Xhosa continents in which Russian and Xhosa speaking countries are present. Check out more information on Russian and Xhosa. Most of the Russian speaking countries lie in Asia, Europe. While Xhosa speaking countries lie in Africa. Continentwise, most of the languages belong to Asian Languages and African Languages. It's always fun to know about interesting facts of any language, so lets discuss about unknown facts of Russian and Xhosa languages:

Russian Interesting Facts:

• In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
• In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Xhosa Interesting Facts:

• 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.

The Russian language was derived from Proto-Slavic Vocabulary and is similar to Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages whereas Russian language is similar to Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele and derived from Khoi-Khoi and San Languages.