Xhosa

Japanese

Xhosa and Japanese

Xhosa

Japanese

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Countries

South Africa

Japan

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

South Africa

Japan

Second Language

Lesotho, South Africa

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa

Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho

Palau

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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.

In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele

Korean Language

Derived From

Khoi-Khoi and San Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5399

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105

0 32

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How Many Consonants

4314

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Molo

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Ndiyabulela

ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Unjani

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Ulale kakuhle

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Ubusuku obuhle

こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Uben' emva kwemini entle

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Molo

おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

Ndicela

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

Ndicela uxolo

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Uhambe/Usale kakuhle

さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Ndiyakuthanda

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Uxolo

すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gcaleka

Sanuki

Where They Speak

South Africa

Kagawa

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.001,000,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Thembu

Hakata

Where They Speak

South Africa

Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.00127,000,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Hlubi

Kansai

Where They Speak

South Africa

kansai

How Many People Speak

19.00127,000,000.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

931

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

20.00 million128.00 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.11 %1.90 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

8.20 million128.00 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

11.00 million3.00 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

isiXhosa

日本語

Alternative Names

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

Nihongo

French Name

xhosa

japonais

German Name

Xhosa-Sprache

Japanisch

Pronunciation

[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

amaXhosa, amaBhaca

Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

16th Century

1185

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

Japonic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo

Branch

Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

isiXhosa

Japanese

Language Position

218

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Xhosa

Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

xho

jpn

ISO 639 2/B

xho

jpn

ISO 639 3

xho

jpn

ISO 639 6

xho

jpn

Glottocode

xhos1239

nucl1643

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fa

45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic

Xhosa and Japanese Alphabets

Xhosa and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Xhosa and Japanese. In Xhosa Alphabets there are 53 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Xhosa and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Xhosa and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Xhosa and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

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Xhosa and Japanese Speaking population

Xhosa and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Xhosa and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Xhosa and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Xhosa vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Xhosa and Japanese Language Codes

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