Countries
South Africa
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Myanmar
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Mon
Regulated By
-
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Thai Language
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1012
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4333
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tangut
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Unjani
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Molo
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Ndicela
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Arakanese
Where They Speak
South Africa
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
South Africa
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Intha
Where They Speak
South Africa
Burma
How Many People Speak
19.0090,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
95
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.20 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiXhosa
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
xhosa
birman
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Bamar people
Origin
16th Century
1113 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Modern Burmese
Language Position
2143
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
mya
ISO 639 2/B
xho
bur
ISO 639 3
xho
mya
ISO 639 6
xho
mya
Glottocode
xhos1239
sout3159
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating