Countries
South Africa
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
India
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Marathi
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5352
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1016
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4336
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Molo
Namaskar
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Unjani
kaso assa?
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
Molo
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Ndicela
Chike
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Maf kor
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Adeus
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Uxolo
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Antruz
Where They Speak
South Africa
Goa
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Thembu
Not present
Where They Speak
South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Not present
Where They Speak
South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
19.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
91
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
xhosa
konkani
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Konkanis
Origin
16th Century
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Kokani
Language Position
2123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
xh
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
kok
ISO 639 2/B
xho
kok
ISO 639 3
xho
kok
ISO 639 6
xho
kok
Glottocode
xhos1239
goan1235
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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