Countries
South Africa
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Chinese Language
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5328
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4320
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
您好
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
谢谢
How Are You?
Unjani
你好吗？
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
晚安
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
下午好
Good Morning
Molo
早上好
Please
Ndicela
请
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
遗憾
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
再见
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
我爱你
Excuse Me
Uxolo
原谅我
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
South Africa
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Thembu
Xiguan
Where They Speak
South Africa
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
South Africa
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
19.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
93
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
xhosa
cantonais
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Han Chinese
Origin
16th Century
17th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
211
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
xh
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
yue
ISO 639 2/B
xho
yue
ISO 639 3
xho
No data available
ISO 639 6
xho
yue
Glottocode
xhos1239
cant1236
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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