1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
North Dakota, United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Council for German Orthography
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 large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Albanian Languages
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
guten Abend
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
guten Tag
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Tschüs
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Ich liebe dich
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA820,000.00
700
80000000
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 million229.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million101.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Deutsch, Tedesco
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Germans
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th Century
6th Century AD
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
isiXhosa
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed German
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
7.5 Glottocode
xhos1239
high1287, uppe1397
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
52-ACB–dl & -dm
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic