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Xhosa
Xhosa

Assamese
Assamese



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Countries

Countries

South Africa
India

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Bangladesh, India

Second Language

Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho
Bangladesh, Bhutan

Regulated By

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Asam Sahitya Sabha

Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
  • Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.

Similar To

Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Bengali and Oriya

Derived From

Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5352
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1011
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4341
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Bengali

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Molo
nomoskaar

Thank You

Ndiyabulela
ḍhonyobaaḍ

How Are You?

Unjani
aapuni kene aase?

Good Night

Ulale kakuhle
subhoraattri

Good Evening

Ubusuku obuhle
subha gadhuli

Good Afternoon

Uben' emva kwemini entle
subha abeli

Good Morning

Molo
suprobhaat

Please

Ndicela
anugroha kori

Sorry

Ndicela uxolo
moi ḍukkhita

Bye

Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
biḍai

I Love You

Ndiyakuthanda
moi tomaak bhaalpaao

Excuse Me

Uxolo
kyoma koribo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gcaleka
Kamrupi

Where They Speak

South Africa
Western Assam

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Thembu
Goalpariya

Where They Speak

South Africa
Western Assam

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hlubi
Bhakatiya

Where They Speak

South Africa
Assam

How Many People Speak

19.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

93
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

20.00 million15.30 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.11 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.20 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

11.00 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

isiXhosa
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)

Alternative Names

“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya

French Name

xhosa
assamais

German Name

Xhosa-Sprache
Assamesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]

Ethnicity

amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Assamese people

History

Origin

16th Century
7th century A.D

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Bantu
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Kamarupa

Standard Forms

isiXhosa
Assamese

Language Position

2165
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Xhosa
Signed Assamese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

xh
as

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

xho
asm

ISO 639 2/B

xho
asm

ISO 639 3

xho
asm

ISO 639 6

xho
asm

Glottocode

xhos1239
assa1263

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fa
59-AAF-w

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Xhosa and Assamese Alphabets

Xhosa and Assamese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Xhosa and Assamese. In Xhosa Alphabets there are 53 letters while in Assamese Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Xhosa and Assamese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Xhosa and Assamese languages. The Xhosa phonology consist Xhosa vowels and Xhosa consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Xhosa greetings vs Assamese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Xhosa and Assamese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Xhosa and Assamese 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 Xhosa and Assamese dialects. Various dialects of Xhosa and Assamese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Xhosa are spoken in different Xhosa Speaking Countries whereas Assamese Dialects are spoken in different Assamese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Xhosa vs Assamese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Xhosa dialects include: Gcaleka, Thembu. Assamese dialects include: Kamrupi , Goalpariya. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Xhosa and Assamese Speaking population

Xhosa and Assamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Xhosa and Assamese languages can be compared. The total count of Xhosa and Assamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 %. 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 Xhosa and Assamese on Xhosa vs Assamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Xhosa and Assamese Language Codes

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