Countries
South Africa
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5344
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1012
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4332
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
sannu
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
gode ku
How Are You?
Unjani
yaya dai
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
barka da rana
Good Morning
Molo
mai kyau safe
Please
Ndicela
Don Allah
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
yi hakuri
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
sai anjima
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
Uxolo
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Gaananci
Where They Speak
South Africa
Ghana
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
South Africa
Niger
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Daragaram
Where They Speak
South Africa
Niger
How Many People Speak
19.0050.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
920
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.52 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.20 million35.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiXhosa
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
xhosa
haoussa
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
16th Century
14
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Chadic
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Hausa
Language Position
2134
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
hau
ISO 639 2/B
xho
hau
ISO 639 3
xho
hau
ISO 639 6
xho
hau
Glottocode
xhos1239
haus1257
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional