Countries
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
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Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4325
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
Unjani
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
Molo
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
Ndicela
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
South Africa
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
South Africa
Serbia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Torlakian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
19.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
93
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million8.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.20 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiXhosa
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Montenegrin
French Name
xhosa
serbe
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Serbs
Origin
16th Century
11th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
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Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Standard Serbian
Language Position
2144
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
srp
ISO 639 2/B
xho
srp
ISO 639 3
xho
srp
ISO 639 6
xho
srp
Glottocode
xhos1239
serb1264
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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