1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Not Available
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
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
3.3 How Are You?
Unjani
Како си? (Kako si?)
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
3.7 Good Morning
Molo
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Волим те (Volim te)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извините (Izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Southeastern Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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
South Africa
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million8.70 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million8.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiXhosa
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Montenegrin
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[sr̩̂pskiː]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th Century
11th Century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
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
Standard Serbian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Not Available
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