Countries
South Africa
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
India
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
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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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Kannada Language
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5351
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1016
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4335
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
Namaskara
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
Unjani
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
yedde rathre
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
Molo
yedde kaande
Please
Ndicela
Daya maltadu
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Barpe
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
South Africa
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Thembu
Jain
Where They Speak
South Africa
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Girijan
Where They Speak
South Africa
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
19.002.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
94
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
Tulu
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
xhosa
-
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Tulu
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Tuluva
Origin
16th Century
14
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Tulu
Language Position
2123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
xho
tul
ISO 639 3
xho
tcy
ISO 639 6
xho
tcy
Glottocode
xhos1239
tulu1258
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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