Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3053
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2143
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Henda ho
Molo
Thank You
Adi Johar
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Unjani
Good Night
Boge Ninda
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
Molo
Please
দয়া করে
Ndicela
Sorry
দুঃখিত
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Hariau
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Mahali
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
India
South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Thembu
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Hlubi
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
19
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
santal
xhosa
German Name
Santali
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
20th century
16th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
isiXhosa
Language Position
4121
1
120
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Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
xho
ISO 639 2/B
sat
xho
ISO 639 3
sat
xho
ISO 639 6
sat
xho
Glottocode
sant1410
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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