Countries
South Africa
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
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
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1010
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4321
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Unjani
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Molo
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Ndicela
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Olonets
Where They Speak
South Africa
Olonets
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Novgorod
Where They Speak
South Africa
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
19.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
913
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiXhosa
Русский
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Russki
French Name
xhosa
russe
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Russians
Origin
16th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Branch
Bantu
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Standard Russian
Language Position
217
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
rus
ISO 639 2/B
xho
rus
ISO 639 3
xho
rus
ISO 639 6
xho
rus
Glottocode
xhos1239
russ1263
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic