Concept information
Preferred term
Type
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language
Definition
- Xhosa (, Xhosa: ) is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately 7.9 million people, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a tonal language, that is, the same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meanings when said with a rising or falling or high or low intonation. One of the most distinctive features of the language is the prominence of click consonants; the word "Xhosa" begins with a click.
Entry terms
- Xhosa language
is focus of
ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code
- xho
ISO 639-2 Terminological code
- xho
ISO 639-1 code
- xh
ISO 639-3 code
- xho
In other languages
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Xhosa
Afrikaans
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Xhosa
Albanian
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Gjuha xhosa
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ዞሳኛ
Amharic
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الخوسا
Arabic
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Խոշերեն
Armenian
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xhosa
Asturian
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xosa dili
Azerbaijani
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জোসা
Bangla
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খোসা ভাষা
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xhosa
Basque
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Xhosera
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хоса
Belarusian
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ዞሳኛ
Blin
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ख़ोसा
Bodo
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ксхоса
Bosnian
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xhosa
Breton
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Xhosaeg
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ксоса
Bulgarian
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Кхоса
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xosa
Catalan
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Xosa
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科萨语
Chinese
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Коса чĕлхи
Chuvash
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Isi-Khoosa
Colognian
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xhosa
Croatian
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xhoština
Czech
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xhosa
Danish
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Xhosa
Dutch
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ཞོ་ས་ཁ
Dzongkha
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ksosa
Esperanto
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Kosa lingvo
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koosa
Estonian
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xhosagbe
Ewe
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xhosa
Faroese
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Xhosa bhasa
Fiji Hindi
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Xhosa
Filipino
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Finnish
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Xhosan kieli
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xhosa
French
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Xhosa
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xhosa
Friulian
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xhosa
Galician
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Lingua xhosa
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ქსოზა
Georgian
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Xhosa
German
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IsiXhosa
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Ζόσα
Greek
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ખોસા
Gujarati
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Bazosa
Hausa
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קסוסה
Hebrew
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षोसा
Hindi
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hosza
Hungarian
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sósa
Icelandic
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Xosa-linguo
Ido
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Xhosa
Indonesian
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Bahasa Xhosa
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xhosa
Interlingua
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Xhosa
Irish
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Cósais
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xosa
Italian
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Lingua xhosa
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コサ語
Japanese
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koza
Kabuverdianu
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ಷೋಸಾ
Kannada
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کھوسا
Kashmiri
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хоса
Kazakh
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ឃសា
Khmer
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Ikigisosa
Kinyarwanda
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Inyehawusa
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Kixhosa
Kongo
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코사어
Korean
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ໂຊຊາ
Lao
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khosu
Latvian
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Isiķhosa
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Xhosa
Limburgish
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kosų
Lithuanian
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Kosų kalba
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IsiXhosa
Low German
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Коса
Macedonian
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хауса
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Fiteny Xhosa
Malagasy
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ഖോസാ
Malayalam
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Ħoża
Maltese
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खोसा
Marathi
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კოსა
Mingrelian
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खोसा
Nepali
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Sethosa
Northern Sotho
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Xhosa
Norwegian
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xhosa
Norwegian Bokmål
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xhosa
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Xhosa
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Kosum
Novial
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Xhosa
Occitan
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ଖୋସା
Odia
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Afaan Xhosa
Oromo
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خوسا
Pashto
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خوسایی
Persian
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زبان خوسایی
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Lenga Xhosa
Piedmontese
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khosa
Polish
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Język xhosa
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xosa
Portuguese
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Língua xhosa
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Xhosa simi
Quechua
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xhosa
Romanian
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xhosa
Romansh
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Коса
Russian
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ксоза
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Xhosa
Scottish Gaelic
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Ксхоса
Serbian
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ශෝසා
Sinhala
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xhosa
Slovak
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xhosa
Slovenian
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Hoosta
Somali
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se Xhosa
Southern Sotho
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xhosa
Spanish
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Idioma xhosa
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Kixhosa
Swahili
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Swedish
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Xhosa
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Xhosa
Swiss German
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ஹோஷா
Tamil
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சோசா மொழி
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షోసా
Telugu
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คะห์โอซา
Thai
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ዞሳኛ
Tigre
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ዞሳኛ
Tigrinya
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lea fakatōsa
Tongan
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IsiXhosa
Tswana
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Zosa
Turkish
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Xhosa dili
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Коса
Ukrainian
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кхоса
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ژوسا
Urdu
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Tiếng Xhosa
Vietnamese
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Xhosa
Walser
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Xhosa
Welsh
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isiXhosa
Xhosa
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IsiXhosa
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Èdè Xhosa
Yoruba
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isiXhosa
Zulu
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IsiXhosa