1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
France, Germany, Indonesia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
German and English 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
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?
Unjani
hoe gaat het met je?
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
goede Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
goedenavond
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
goedemiddag
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
vaarwel
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Ik hou van jou
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA590,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Belgium, Netherlands
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,300,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million22.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Hollands, Nederlands
5.3.4 French Name
xhosa
néerlandais; flamand
5.3.5 German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Niederländisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Dutch people
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 Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
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