Countries
Fiji, India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
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, Oceania
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
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Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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
Urdu
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4453
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1110
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3343
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Molo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Unjani
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Molo
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Ndicela
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
South Africa
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Marwari
Thembu
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
South Africa
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
South Africa
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
219
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
hindi
xhosa
German Name
Hindi
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
7th Century
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
isiXhosa
Language Position
521
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
xho
ISO 639 2/B
hin
xho
ISO 639 3
hin
xho
ISO 639 6
hins
xho
Glottocode
hind1269
xhos1239
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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