Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5253
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3643
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Molo
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Unjani
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Molo
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
Ndicela
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Not present
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
140,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Thembu
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
140,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Hlubi
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
140,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
09
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.10 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
sanskrit
xhosa
German Name
Sanskrit
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
2000 B.C.
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
isiXhosa
Language Position
2321
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
xho
ISO 639 2/B
san
xho
ISO 639 3
san
xho
ISO 639 6
san
xho
Glottocode
sans1269
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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