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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
11
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
South Africa
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
5332
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
1015
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
4317
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
33
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Molo
hallo
3.2 Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Dankie
3.3 How Are You?
Unjani
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
Molo
goeie more
3.8 Please
Ndicela
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
jammer
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Thembu
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Hlubi
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Namibia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
93
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million19.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.11 %NA
Persian
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million7.10 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million10.30 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiXhosa
Afrikaans
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
xhosa
afrikaans
5.3.5 German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Afrikaans
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Afrikaners
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th Century
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
Bantu
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
NANA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
xh
af
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
xho
afr
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
xho
afr
7.3 ISO 639 3
xho
afr
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
afrs
7.5 Glottocode
xhos1239
afri1274
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic

Xhosa and Afrikaans Alphabets

Xhosa and Afrikaans Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Xhosa and Afrikaans. In Xhosa Alphabets there are 53 letters while in Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Xhosa and Afrikaans languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Xhosa and Afrikaans languages. The Xhosa phonology consist Xhosa vowels and Xhosa consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Xhosa greetings vs Afrikaans greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Xhosa and Afrikaans are Most Spoken Languages.

All Xhosa and Afrikaans Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Xhosa and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of Xhosa and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Xhosa are spoken in different Xhosa Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Xhosa vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Xhosa dialects include: Gcaleka, Thembu. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Xhosa and Afrikaans Speaking population

Xhosa and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Xhosa and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Xhosa and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Xhosa and Afrikaans on Xhosa vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Xhosa and Afrikaans Language Codes

Xhosa and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Xhosa and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.