Countries
South Africa
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
South Africa
Abkhazia
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5362
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
102
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4360
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks27 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Molo
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Unjani
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
Molo
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
Ndicela
амритана
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Амарахь
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
-
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Bzyb
Where They Speak
South Africa
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Thembu
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
South Africa
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Sadz
Where They Speak
South Africa
Turkey
How Many People Speak
19.00106,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
93
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million0.13 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
xhosa
abkhaze
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Abkhaz people
Origin
16th Century
c. 1650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Abkhaz
Language Position
2128
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
abk
ISO 639 2/B
xho
abk
ISO 639 3
xho
abk
ISO 639 6
xho
abks
Glottocode
xhos1239
abkh1244
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative