Countries
South Africa
Turkey, Uzbekistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Middle East
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.
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
109
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4324
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
Salom
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Rakhmat
How Are You?
Unjani
Qalay siz?
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Hayirli tun
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Hayirli kech
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Hayirli kun
Good Morning
Molo
Hayirli tong
Please
Ndicela
Iltimos
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Kechiring!
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Xayr
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Sizni sevaman
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Iltimos! Menga qarang
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Tashkent
Where They Speak
South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0032,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Afghan
Where They Speak
South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0032,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Ferghana
Where They Speak
South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
19.0032,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
96
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.20 million26.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million32.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiXhosa
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
xhosa
ouszbek
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Usbekisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[oʻzbek]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Uzbek
Origin
16th Century
9th–12th centuries AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Turkic
Branch
Bantu
Southestern(Chagatai)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Chagatay
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Uzbek
Language Position
2153
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Uzbek
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
xh
uz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
uzb
ISO 639 2/B
xho
uzb
ISO 639 3
xho
uzb
ISO 639 6
xho
uzb
Glottocode
xhos1239
uzbe1247
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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