1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Adyghe language, Abaza language
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Caucasian 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
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Molo
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
3.2 Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
3.3 How Are You?
Unjani
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.7 Good Morning
Molo
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Not Available
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Not available
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?
20.00 million0.13 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million0.13 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiXhosa
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Abxazo, Abkhazian
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Abkhaz people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Northwest Caucasian
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
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
Signed Xhosa
Not Available
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative