1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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
Molo
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
Ndiyabulela
спасибо(spasibo)
3.3 How Are You?
Unjani
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
Molo
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
Ndicela
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Russki
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Russians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Russian
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
Fusional, Synthetic