Countries
South Africa
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Lithuania
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Poland
Regulated By
-
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Latvian
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5332
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1012
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4320
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Molo
Sveiki
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Ačiū
How Are You?
Unjani
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Labanakt
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Laba diena
Good Morning
Molo
Labas rytas
Please
Ndicela
Prašom
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
atsiprašau
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Ate
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Samogitian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Thembu
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Curonian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
19.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
910
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
xhosa
lituanien
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Lithuanians
Origin
16th Century
c. 1503
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Lithuanian
Language Position
2144
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
lit
ISO 639 2/B
xho
lit
ISO 639 3
xho
lit
ISO 639 6
xho
lit
Glottocode
xhos1239
lith1251
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic