1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Albania, Romania, Serbia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
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
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
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
Ndiyabulela
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
3.3 How Are You?
Unjani
Како си? (Kako si?)
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Добар ден (Dobar den)
3.7 Good Morning
Molo
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
Ndicela
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Чао (Čao)
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Те сакам (Te sakam)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
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 million2.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million2.50 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiXhosa
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Makedonisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Macedonians
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Macedonian 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
Not Available
Not Available
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology