1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Roman Empire
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Armenian
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
Ndiyabulela
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
3.3 How Are You?
Unjani
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
3.7 Good Morning
Molo
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
3.8 Please
Ndicela
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
3.9 Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
αντίο (antío)
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Cappadocian Greek
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 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
5.3.4 French Name
xhosa
grec moderne (après 1453)
5.3.5 German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Neugriechisch
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Greeks or Hellenes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Greek Sign Language
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
Fusional, Synthetic