Countries
South Africa
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Malta
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese 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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4324
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
Ħello
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Grazzi
How Are You?
Unjani
Kif int?
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Molo
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Ndicela
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Skużani!
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Ċaw
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Qormi
Where They Speak
South Africa
Malta
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Żejtun
Where They Speak
South Africa
Malta
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Not Present
Where They Speak
South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
19.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
92
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
Malti
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Malti
French Name
xhosa
maltais
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Maltese
Origin
16th Century
c. 1470
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Semitic
Branch
Bantu
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Maltese
Language Position
2125
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
xho
mlt
ISO 639 3
xho
mlt
ISO 639 6
xho
mlt
Glottocode
xhos1239
malt1254
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic