Countries
South Africa
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
India
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Urdu
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5344
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1011
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4333
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Unjani
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
Molo
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
Ndicela
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Khariboli
Where They Speak
South Africa
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Marwari
Where They Speak
South Africa
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Bundeli
Where They Speak
South Africa
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
19.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
921
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
xhosa
hindi
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Hindi
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Hindustani people
Origin
16th Century
7th Century
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
Standard Hindi
Language Position
215
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
hin
ISO 639 2/B
xho
hin
ISO 639 3
xho
hin
ISO 639 6
xho
hins
Glottocode
xhos1239
hind1269
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic