Countries
South Africa
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
-
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4313
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
Moi
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Kiitos
How Are You?
Unjani
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Molo
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Ndicela
haluta
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Anteeksi
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Heippa
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
South Africa
Finland
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Rauma
Where They Speak
South Africa
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
South Africa
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
19.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
921
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Suomi
French Name
xhosa
finnois
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
ethnic Finns
Origin
16th Century
1543
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Bantu
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
standard Finnish
Language Position
2122
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
fin
ISO 639 2/B
xho
fin
ISO 639 3
xho
fin
ISO 639 6
xho
fin
Glottocode
xhos1239
finn1318
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative, Synthetic