Countries
South Africa
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Pakistan
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
India
Regulated By
-
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5352
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1010
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4340
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Molo
خوش آمديد
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
Unjani
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
Molo
گڈ مارننگ
Please
Ndicela
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
معاف کرنا
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
الوداع
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
Uxolo
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Dakhini
Where They Speak
South Africa
India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Thembu
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
South Africa
India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Rekhta
Where They Speak
South Africa
South Asia
How Many People Speak
19.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
93
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
اُردُو
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Bihari
French Name
xhosa
ourdou
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Urdu
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
16th Century
12th Century CE
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Bantu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
2120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
urd
ISO 639 2/B
xho
urd
ISO 639 3
xho
urd
ISO 639 6
xho
urd
Glottocode
xhos1239
urdu1245
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
59-AAF-q
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional