Countries
South Africa
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Indonesia
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
-
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Malay language
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4319
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
37
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
Halo
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Terima kasih
How Are You?
Unjani
Apa kabar?
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
Molo
Selamat Pagi
Please
Ndicela
mohon Untuk
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
maaf
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Permisi
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Sundanese
Where They Speak
South Africa
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Balinese
Where They Speak
South Africa
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.003,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
South Africa
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
19.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
946
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
xhosa
indonésien
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Indonesians
Origin
16th Century
7th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indonesian
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Malay
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Indonesian
Language Position
2156
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
ind
ISO 639 2/B
xho
ind
ISO 639 3
xho
ind
ISO 639 6
xho
ind
Glottocode
xhos1239
indo1316
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative