1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Serbain and Bosnian
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Church Slavonic
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
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
dobra večer
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
dobar dan
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Doviđenja
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
NA660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA13,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million89.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million5.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Hrvatski
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Croats
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Croatian 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
99-AUT-fa
part of 53-AAA-g
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
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic