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
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Prakrit Language
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Molo
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Ndiyabulela
3.3 How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Unjani
3.4 Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Ulale kakuhle
3.5 Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Molo
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Ndicela uxolo
3.10 Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
South Africa
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
14.10 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
14.10 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
isiXhosa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology