Language code: xh
Technical information about ISO 639 language code xh
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The table below provides technical details for the Xhosa language, designated by the xh code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Xhosa Native IsiXhosa |
| Family | Bantu |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | GcalekaGaika (Ngqika)NdlambeHlubiMpondoMpondomiseThembuBomvana |
| Related languages | ZuluSwati (Swazi)Southern NdebeleNorthern Ndebele |
| Key facts | Uses three main click consonants adopted from Khoisan languagesEmploys tone to distinguish meaning between otherwise identical wordsWritten with the Latin alphabet enriched by digraphs and additional letters such as xh, hl and ngqVocabulary contains many loanwords from Afrikaans and EnglishThe language name comes from a legendary ancestral chief called uXhosa |
| Sample phrase | Molo, unjani? |
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Xhosa belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, specifically to the Bantu subgroup. It is one of the official languages of South Africa. Though primarily concentrated in South Africa, there are also Xhosa speakers in Zimbabwe and possibly a small number in Botswana due to migration. Xhosa is written using the Latin script (Xhosa alphabet). It is estimated that there are between 10 and 20 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Xhosa speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ