1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Spanish and Galician Languages
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Latin
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
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
boa Tarde
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
tchau
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Brazilian Portuguese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Thembu
European Portuguese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Hlubi
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Daman and Diu
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 million231.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million216.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Português
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Portugiesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Portuguese people or portugueses
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
Medieval Galician
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Portuguese
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available