Countries
South Africa
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
South Africa
India
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Bengali Language
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5347
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4331
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks18 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Molo
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
Unjani
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
Molo
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
Ndicela
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
South Africa
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Thembu
Kharwa
Where They Speak
South Africa
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Surati
Where They Speak
South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
19.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
98
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.74 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million50.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
xhosa
goudjrati
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Gujaratis
Origin
16th Century
15
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Bantu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
2123
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
guj
ISO 639 2/B
xho
guj
ISO 639 3
xho
guj
ISO 639 6
xho
guj
Glottocode
xhos1239
guja1252
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-