Countries
South Africa
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
South Africa
  
India
  
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Molo
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Unjani
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
Molo
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
Ndicela
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
South Africa
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Thembu
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
South Africa
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Hlubi
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
South Africa
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million
  
99+
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
8.20 million
  
99+
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million
  
21
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
isiXhosa
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
xhosa
  
hindi
  
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
16th Century
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
  
Standard Hindi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
xh
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
xho
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
xho
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
xho
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
xhos1239
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Xhosa and Hindi Speaking population
Xhosa and Hindi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Xhosa and Hindi languages can be compared. The total count of Xhosa and Hindi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hindi language is 4.70 %. 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 Hindi on Xhosa vs Hindi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Xhosa and Hindi Language Codes
Xhosa and Hindi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Xhosa and Hindi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.