1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.15 National Language
South Africa
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
1.17 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.3 Speaking Continents
2.5 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
2.6 Regulated By
Not Available
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
2.7 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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
2.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
2.11 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
4.4 Phonology
4.4.1 How Many Vowels
6.3.2 How Many Consonants
6.9 Scripts
6.10 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
6.11 Hard to Learn
6.11.1 Language Levels
8.1.3 Time Taken to Learn
9 Greetings
9.1 Hello
9.2 Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
9.3 How Are You?
Unjani
Како си? (Kako si?)
9.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
9.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
9.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
9.7 Good Morning
Molo
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
9.8 Please
9.9 Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
9.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
9.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Волим те (Volim te)
9.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извините (Izvinite)
10 Dialects
10.1 Dialect 1
10.1.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Southeastern Serbia
10.1.2 How Many People Speak
13.2 Dialect 2
13.2.1 Where They Speak
13.2.2 How Many People Speak
17.3 Dialect 3
17.3.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
17.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,500,000.00
1400
96000000
18.6 Total No. Of Dialects
20 How Many People Speak
20.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million8.70 million
0.13
1200
22.2 Speaking Population
23.2 Native Speakers
8.20 million8.70 million
0.13
873
23.5.1 Second Language Speakers
23.8.2 Native Name
isiXhosa
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
23.8.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Montenegrin
23.8.4 French Name
23.8.6 German Name
23.9 Pronunciation
Not Available
[sr̩̂pskiː]
23.10 Ethnicity
24 History
24.1 Origin
16th Century
11th Century
24.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
24.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
24.2.2 Branch
24.3 Language Forms
24.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
24.3.2 Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Standard Serbian
24.3.3 Language Position
25.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Not Available
25.4 Scope
26 Code
26.1 ISO 639 1
26.2 ISO 639 2
26.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
26.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
26.3 ISO 639 3
26.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
26.5 Glottocode
26.6 Linguasphere
26.7 Types of Language
26.7.1 Language Type
26.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
26.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available