Countries
South Africa
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
South Africa
Indonesia
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5327
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4321
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Molo
Halo
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Unjani
piye kabare?
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Molo
Sugeng énjing
Please
Ndicela
matur nuwun
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
South Africa
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Thembu
Cirebon
Where They Speak
South Africa
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Arekan
Where They Speak
South Africa
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
19.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
916
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
xhosa
javanais
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
16th Century
450 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indonesian
Branch
Bantu
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Javanese
Language Position
2111
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
jav
ISO 639 2/B
xho
jav
ISO 639 3
xho
jav
ISO 639 6
xho
jav
Glottocode
xhos1239
java1253
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