German

Xhosa

German and Xhosa

German

Xhosa

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Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

Germany

South Africa

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America

Lesotho, South Africa

Speaking Continents

Europe

Africa

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Botswana, Lesotho

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography

Interesting Facts

One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele

Derived From

Albanian Languages

Khoi-Khoi and San Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2653

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1010

0 32

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How Many Consonants

943

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

hallo

Molo

Thank You

Danke

Ndiyabulela

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?

Unjani

Good Night

gute Nacht

Ulale kakuhle

Good Evening

guten Abend

Ubusuku obuhle

Good Afternoon

guten Tag

Uben' emva kwemini entle

Good Morning

guten Morgen

Molo

Please

bitte

Ndicela

Sorry

Verzeihung

Ndicela uxolo

Bye

Tschüs

Uhambe/Usale kakuhle

I Love You

Ich liebe dich

Ndiyakuthanda

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung

Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German

Gcaleka

Where They Speak

Switzerland

South Africa

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0019,000,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Swabian German

Thembu

Where They Speak

Germany

South Africa

How Many People Speak

820,000.0019,000,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Texas German

Hlubi

Where They Speak

Texas

South Africa

How Many People Speak

6,000.0019.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

289

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million20.00 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.11 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

101.00 million8.20 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million11.00 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

Deutsch

isiXhosa

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco

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

French Name

allemand

xhosa

German Name

Deutsch

Xhosa-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]

Ethnicity

Germans

amaXhosa, amaBhaca

History

Origin

6th Century AD

16th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic

Benue-Congo

Branch

Western

Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

isiXhosa

Language Position

921

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed German

Signed Xhosa

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu

xho

ISO 639 2/B

ger

xho

ISO 639 3

deu

xho

ISO 639 6

deus

xho

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397

xhos1239

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm

99-AUT-fa

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

German and Xhosa Alphabets

German and Xhosa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Xhosa. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Xhosa Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn German and Xhosa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Xhosa languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Xhosa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Xhosa are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Xhosa Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Xhosa dialects. Various dialects of German and Xhosa language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Xhosa Dialects are spoken in different Xhosa speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Xhosa Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Xhosa dialects include: Gcaleka , Thembu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Xhosa Speaking population

German and Xhosa speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Xhosa languages can be compared. The total count of German and Xhosa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Xhosa on German vs Xhosa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Xhosa Language Codes

German and Xhosa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Xhosa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.