Countries
South Africa
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Armenian
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5324
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
107
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4317
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Unjani
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Molo
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
Ndicela
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
South Africa
Greece
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Griko
Where They Speak
South Africa
Italy
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Mariupol
Where They Speak
South Africa
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
19.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
925
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
xhosa
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
16th Century
1500 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Hellenic
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Modern Greek
Language Position
2174
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
ell
ISO 639 2/B
xho
gre
ISO 639 3
xho
ell
ISO 639 6
xho
ells
Glottocode
xhos1239
gree1276
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic