1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
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.
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
French Language
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
Ulale kakuhle
Buenas Noches
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Bonne soirée
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Buenas Tardes
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
adiós
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA105,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA11,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Hlubi
Puerto Rican Spanish
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,900,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million489.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million410.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million89.50 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Castellano, Castilian, Español
5.3.4 French Name
xhosa
espagnol; castillan
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Not Available
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
Old Spanish and Spanish
6.3.2 Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Spanish
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic