Xhosa (/ ˈ k ɔː s ə, ˈ k oʊ s ə /, Xhosa pronunciation: [kǁʰóːsa]) also isiXhosa as an endonym, is a Nguni language and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. Xhosa is spoken as a first language by approximately 8.2 million people and by another 11 million as a second language in South Africa, mostly in Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape and …

The Xhosa people, or Xhosa-speaking people (/ ˈ k ɔː s ə, ˈ k oʊ s ə /; Xhosa pronunciation: [kǁʰɔ́ːsa] ()) are a Nguni-affiliated ethnic group whose traditional homeland is primarily the Cape Provinces of South Africa.They are the second largest race group in Southern Africa and are native speakers of the IsiXhosa language.. Presently, approximately eight million Xhosa …

Xhosa may refer to: . Xhosa people, a nation, and ethnic group, who live in south-central and southeasterly region of South Africa; Xhosa language, one of the 11 official languages of South Africa, principally spoken by the Xhosa people; See also. All pages with titles containing Xhosa; Khosa (disambiguation) Kosa (disambiguation)

History. The first European to describe the language was the German traveller Hinrich Lichtenstein, who lived among the Tswana people Batlhaping in 1806 although his work was not published until 1930. He mistakenly regarded Tswana as a dialect of the Xhosa, and the name that he used for the language "Beetjuana" may also have covered the Northern and Southern …

Shona (/ ˈ ʃ oʊ n ə /; Shona: chiShona) is a Bantu language of the Shona people of Zimbabwe.It was codified by the colonial government in the 1950s. According to Ethnologue, Shona, comprising the Zezuru, Korekore and Karanga dialects, is spoken by about 7.5 million people. The Manyika dialect of Shona is listed separately by Ethnologue, and is spoken by 1,025,000 people.

Xhosa (isiXhosa, [isikǁʰɔ́ːsa], luister (hulp·inligting) in Xhosa) is die taal van die Xhosas en is een van die elf amptelike landstale van Suid-Afrika.Dit word deur sowat 8,2 miljoen mense as moedertaal gepraat (2011-sensus). Dit maak dit die taal met die tweede meeste moerdertaalsprekers in Suid-Afrika ná Zoeloe.Omtrent 11 miljoen mense gebruik Xhosa as …

Le xhosa est une langue tonale d'Afrique australe. Cette langue compte, pour la seule Afrique du Sud, un peu plus de huit millions de locuteurs, soit environ 18 % de la population, ce qui en fait la deuxième du pays après le zoulou.Elle est la langue du peuple xhosa.. Le xh de xhosa est une consonne originale de cette langue, appelée clic alvéolaire latéral aspiré : cette consonne se ...

Répartition géographique. Les Xhosa sont principalement présents dans l'est de l'Afrique du Sud et notamment dans la province du Cap-Oriental. Histoire. Les Xhosa sont issus de populations originaires de la région des Grands Lacs ayant migré progressivement en direction du sud tout en repoussant les chasseurs khoïsan.Lorsque les Néerlandais colonisent le sud de l'Afrique au …

Validity. Khoisan was proposed as one of the four families of African languages in Joseph Greenberg's classification (1949–1954, revised in 1963). However, linguists who study Khoisan languages reject their unity, and the name "Khoisan" is used by them as a term of convenience without any implication of linguistic validity, much as "Papuan" and "Australian" are.

Afrikaans is a Germanic language closely related to Dutch.It has its origins in the 17th century, but was only officially recognised in 1875 when the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners was established. Afrikaans is spoken throughout South Africa, and is the mother tongue of both whites and coloureds (in the South African sense, meaning a specific independent culture rather than …