Countries
India, No official status
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
01
0
46
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National Language
India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
- 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
Maithili and Magahi
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4353
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1110
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3443
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
प्रणाम (prannam)
Molo
Thank You
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Unjani
Good Night
राम राम (raam raam)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
राम राम (raam raam)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
राम राम (raam raam)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
राम राम (raam raam)
Molo
Please
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Ndicela
Sorry
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
प्रणाम (prannam)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Caribbean Hindustani
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
South Africa
How Many People Speak
16,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Fiji Hindi
Thembu
Where They Speak
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
South Africa
How Many People Speak
380,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Tharu Bhojpuri
Hlubi
Where They Speak
India
South Africa
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
139
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.43 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
40.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
bhojpuri
xhosa
German Name
Bhojpuri
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Bhojpuri speakers
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
19th Century
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bhojpuri
isiXhosa
Language Position
3721
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bho
xho
ISO 639 2/B
bho
xho
ISO 639 3
bho
xho
ISO 639 6
bho
xho
Glottocode
bhoj1246
xhos1239
Linguasphere
59-AAF-sa
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-