Countries
South Africa
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
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
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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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 earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5342
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1011
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4331
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
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
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
Unjani
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
Molo
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
Ndicela
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Baleswari
Where They Speak
South Africa
India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Ganjami
Where They Speak
South Africa
India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Kosli
Where They Speak
South Africa
India
How Many People Speak
19.00520,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
98
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million33.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiXhosa
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
xhosa
oriya
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Odias
Origin
16th Century
3 BC
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 Odia
Language Position
2132
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
xh
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
ori
ISO 639 2/B
xho
ori
ISO 639 3
xho
ori
ISO 639 6
xho
ori
Glottocode
xhos1239
macr1269
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
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