Countries
South Africa
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Nepal
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Hindi
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5348
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1012
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4336
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Unjani
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Molo
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Ndicela
कृपया
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Doteli
Where They Speak
South Africa
Nepal
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
South Africa
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
South Africa
Nepal
How Many People Speak
19.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
912
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
xhosa
népalais
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
16th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Bantu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Nepali
Language Position
2159
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
xh
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
nep
ISO 639 2/B
xho
nep
ISO 639 3
xho
npi
ISO 639 6
xho
nep
Glottocode
xhos1239
nepa1254
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative