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Xhosa
Xhosa

German
German



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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

17
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Germany

Second Language

Lesotho, South Africa
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

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Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1010
0 32
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How Many Consonants

439
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Molo
hallo

Thank You

Ndiyabulela
Danke

How Are You?

Unjani
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Ulale kakuhle
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Ubusuku obuhle
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Uben' emva kwemini entle
guten Tag

Good Morning

Molo
guten Morgen

Please

Ndicela
bitte

Sorry

Ndicela uxolo
Verzeihung

Bye

Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Tschüs

I Love You

Ndiyakuthanda
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Uxolo
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gcaleka
Swiss German

Where They Speak

South Africa
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Thembu
Swabian German

Where They Speak

South Africa
Germany

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hlubi
Texas German

Where They Speak

South Africa
Texas

How Many People Speak

19.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

928
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

20.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.11 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.20 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

11.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

isiXhosa
Deutsch

Alternative Names

“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

xhosa
allemand

German Name

Xhosa-Sprache
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Germans

History

Origin

16th Century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Germanic

Branch

Bantu
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

isiXhosa
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

219
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Xhosa
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

xh
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

xho
deu

ISO 639 2/B

xho
ger

ISO 639 3

xho
deu

ISO 639 6

xho
deus

Glottocode

xhos1239
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fa
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Xhosa and German Alphabets

Xhosa and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Xhosa and German. In Xhosa Alphabets there are 53 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Xhosa and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Xhosa and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Xhosa and German are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Xhosa and German Speaking population

Xhosa and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Xhosa and German languages can be compared. The total count of Xhosa and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Xhosa vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Xhosa and German Language Codes

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