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Preferred term

xhoXhosa  

Type

  • 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

ISO 639-1 code

  • xh

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • xho

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • xho

ISO 639-3 code

  • xho

Notation

  • xho

In other languages

  • xhosa

    French

  • Xhosa
  • Xhosa

    German

  • IsiXhosa
  • xosa

    Italian

  • Lingua xhosa
  • xosa

    Portuguese

  • Língua xhosa
  • xhosa

    Spanish

  • Idioma xhosa

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/xho

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