1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.2 National Language
1.3 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
1.4 Speaking Continents
1.5 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
1.6 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
1.7 Interesting Facts
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
- 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.
1.8 Similar To
Kannada Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.9 Derived From
Not Available
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.4 Phonology
2.4.1 How Many Vowels
2.5.3 How Many Consonants
2.7 Scripts
2.8 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.9 Hard to Learn
2.9.1 Language Levels
2.9.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Mast Upakara.
Ndiyabulela
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
yedde rathre
Ulale kakuhle
3.5 Good Evening
yedde baiyya
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
Ndicela uxolo
3.10 Bye
Barpe
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
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?
1.70 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.70 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Not Available
Xhosa-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Tuluva
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Dravidian Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
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
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
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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