Countries
South Africa
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
19
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Austria
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
-
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4325
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
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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Hello
Molo
bok
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
hvala
How Are You?
Unjani
kako si
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
laku noć
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
dobar dan
Good Morning
Molo
dobro jutro
Please
Ndicela
molim
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Oprostite
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Doviđenja
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Volim te
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Chakavian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Croatia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Chakavian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Croatia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
19.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
979
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %89.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
hrvatski
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Hrvatski
French Name
xhosa
croate
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Croats
Origin
16th Century
9th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
2123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
xho
hrv
ISO 639 3
xho
hrv
ISO 639 6
xho
hrv
Glottocode
xhos1239
croa1245
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic