Countries
South Africa
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
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46
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National Language
South Africa
Russia
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
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Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary