1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
South Africa
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.
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Latin
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA225,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
United Kingdom
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA2,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million1,200.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million400.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million400.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
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
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th Century
5th Century AD
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
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
6.3.2 Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Standard English
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed English
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic