1 Countries
1.1 Countries
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Central Hindi Directorate
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Urdu
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Sanskrit Language
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
Ndiyabulela
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
3.3 How Are You?
Unjani
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
3.7 Good Morning
Molo
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
खेद (Khēda)
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
अलविदा (Alavidā)
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA22,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million380.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million260.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Hindustani 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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Indian Signing System
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
7.6 Linguasphere
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