Countries
South Africa
European Union, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Poland
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
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Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
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.
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5332
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
109
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4323
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Molo
cześć
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
dziękuję
How Are You?
Unjani
Jak się masz?
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
dobranoc
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
dobry wieczór
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
dzień dobry
Good Morning
Molo
Dzień dobry
Please
Ndicela
proszę
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Przepraszam
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
do widzenia
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
kocham Cię
Excuse Me
Uxolo
przepraszam
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Kashubian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Poland
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00108,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Thembu
Masovian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Poland
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Silesian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Czech Republic, Poland
How Many People Speak
19.00510,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
934
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.61 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
Polski
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Polnisch, Polski
French Name
xhosa
polonais
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Polnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ˈpɔlski]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Poles
Origin
16th Century
1270
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Branch
Bantu
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Polish
Language Position
2124
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
pl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
pol
ISO 639 2/B
xho
pol
ISO 639 3
xho
pol
ISO 639 6
xho
pols
Glottocode
xhos1239
poli1260
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
53-AAA-cc
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional, Synthetic