Countries
South Africa
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
South Africa
Israel
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Israel
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Poland
Regulated By
-
Academy of the Hebrew Language
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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5322
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
100
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4322
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Hebrew
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Molo
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
Unjani
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
Molo
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
Ndicela
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
South Africa
Israel
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Thembu
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
South Africa
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
South Africa
Israel
How Many People Speak
19.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
97
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million9.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
xhosa
hébreu
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
16th Century
1000 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Semitic
Branch
Bantu
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
2123
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
heb
ISO 639 2/B
xho
heb
ISO 639 3
xho
heb
ISO 639 6
xho
heb
Glottocode
xhos1239
hebr1246
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic