Countries
South Africa
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4328
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Unjani
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Molo
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Ndicela
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Kartlian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Kartli
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Pshavian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
19.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
920
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.20 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
11.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiXhosa
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
xhosa
géorgien
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Georgians
Origin
16th Century
5th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Southern
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Modern Georgian
Language Position
21120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
xh
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
kat
ISO 639 2/B
xho
geo
ISO 639 3
xho
kat
ISO 639 6
xho
kat
Glottocode
xhos1239
nucl1302
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic