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Countries

South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

South Africa

Second Language

Lesotho, South Africa

Speaking Continents

Africa

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho

Regulated By

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.

Similar To

Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele

Derived From

Khoi-Khoi and San Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 32 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 7 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 32 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Molo

Thank You

Ndiyabulela

How Are You?

Unjani

Good Night

Ulale kakuhle

Good Evening

Ubusuku obuhle

Good Afternoon

Uben' emva kwemini entle

Good Morning

Molo

Please

Ndicela

Sorry

Ndicela uxolo

Bye

Uhambe/Usale kakuhle

I Love You

Ndiyakuthanda

Excuse Me

Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gcaleka

Where They Speak

South Africa

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.00

Rank: 30 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Thembu

Where They Speak

South Africa

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.00

Rank: 27 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Hlubi

Where They Speak

South Africa

How Many People Speak

19.00

Rank: 84 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

20.00 million

Rank: 42 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.11 %

Rank: 56 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

8.20 million

Rank: 52 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

11.00 million

Rank: 39 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

isiXhosa

Alternative Names

“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa

French Name

xhosa

German Name

Xhosa-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]

Ethnicity

amaXhosa, amaBhaca

History

Origin

16th Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo

Branch

Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

isiXhosa

Language Position

Rank: 19 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Xhosa

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

xho

ISO 639 2/B

xho

ISO 639 3

xho

ISO 639 6

xho

Glottocode

xhos1239

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fa

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Xhosa

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Xhosa Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Xhosa Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Xhosa. Xhosa phonology gives Xhosa vowels and Xhosa consonants. There are 10 vowels and 43 consonants in Xhosa language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Xhosa is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Xhosa language is given in detail in this section.

All Xhosa countries

Want to explore all Xhosa countries? About Xhosa language serves you with all Xhosa Speaking Countries. Countries that use Xhosa as official language are called as Xhosa countries.

Countries that use Xhosa as their National Language are: South Africa.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Xhosa as second language are: Lesotho, South Africa.

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Learn Xhosa greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Xhosa Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Xhosa language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Xhosa language.Learn Xhosa greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Molo
Thank you: Ndiyabulela
Good Morning: Molo
Good Evening: Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon: Uben' emva kwemini entle

All Xhosa Language Codes

Get to know all Xhosa language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Xhosa Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.