Countries
South Africa
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Xhosa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Molo
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Unjani
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Molo
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Ndicela
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
South Africa
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Thembu
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
South Africa
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Hlubi
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
South Africa
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
8.20 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million
  
21
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
isiXhosa
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
xhosa
  
népalais
  
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
16th Century
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
xh
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
xho
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
xho
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
xho
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
xhos1239
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Xhosa and Nepali Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Xhosa and Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Xhosa and Nepali language. Xhosa word for "Hello" is Molo or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Xhosa Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Xhosa vs Nepali Difficulty
The Xhosa vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Xhosa Alphabets and Nepali Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Xhosa and Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Xhosa and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Xhosa is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.