1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Serbian and Croatian
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Not Available
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
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Dobro veće
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Dobar dan
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Zbogom
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA13,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA660,000.00
700
80000000
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 million3.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million3.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiXhosa
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Bosniaks
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th Century
19th Century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
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
part of 53-AAA-g
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available