Countries
Turkey, Uzbekistan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
- 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
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
-
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2953
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
910
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2443
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Salom
Molo
Thank You
Rakhmat
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Qalay siz?
Unjani
Good Night
Hayirli tun
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Hayirli kech
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Hayirli kun
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Hayirli tong
Molo
Please
Iltimos
Ndicela
Sorry
Kechiring!
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Xayr
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Sizni sevaman
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Iltimos! Menga qarang
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Tashkent
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
32,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Afghan
Thembu
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
32,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ferghana
Hlubi
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
32,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
69
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.39 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
26.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
32.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
ouszbek
xhosa
German Name
Usbekisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[oʻzbek]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Uzbek
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
9th–12th centuries AD
16th Century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Southestern(Chagatai)
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Chagatay
No early forms
Standard Forms
Uzbek
isiXhosa
Language Position
5321
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Uzbek
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
uz
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uzb
xho
ISO 639 2/B
uzb
xho
ISO 639 3
uzb
xho
ISO 639 6
uzb
xho
Glottocode
uzbe1247
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
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