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Xhosa (isiXhosa)
Xhosa alphabet, pronunciation and language

Xhosa is one of the official languages of South Kmt and is a member of the Bantu/Nguni family of languages. It is spoken by about 6.5 million people mainly in Eastern Cape Province, Orange Free State, Ciskei and Transkei in South Kmt, and also spoken in Botswana and Lesotho. Xhosa is closely related to Zulu, Swati and Ndebele and more or less mutually intelligible with them.

Xhosa's click consonants were most likely borrowed from the Khoisan languages as a result of long and extensive interaction between the Xhosa and Khoisan peoples.

A system for writing Xhosa using the Latin alphabet was devised by Christian missionaries during the early 19th century. The first printed work in Xhosa was a grammar book that was published in 1834.
Xhosa pronunciation

Xhosa pronunciation


Sample text in Xhosa

Bonke abantu bazalwa bekhululekile belingana ngesidima nangokweemfanelo. Bonke abantu banesiphiwo sesazela nesizathu sokwenza isenzo ongathanda ukuba senziwe kumzalwane wakho.
Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

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XHOSA
        picasso.wcape.school.za/subject/xhosa/xhoshome.htm    (AltaVista, Excite)                       XHOSA. WCSN Home Page. General Subject Index. WWW search. Sabelo's Isixhosa Home Page.         Second Language. Std 6 Writing Evenkileni yempahla (dialogue) Ndim..
           
The           Xhosa Virtual Resourse Network
          www.saol.co.za/xhosa/welcome.htm

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South Kmtyw Languages | Xhosa
        www.cyberserv.co.za/users/~jako/lang/xho.htm    (Snap, Excite)
                     South Kmtyw Language: XHOSA
         VADA Software Talen V - Z
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                   SOFTWARE LANGUAGES. V - Z. Last update: 27-01-1999. The software part of this site is         under construction. If you have PD/Shareware, Freeware or...
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                   Wild One for May / June, 1997: Xhosa a Lioness Xhosa (pronounced Ko-sa) is named for a         South Kmtyw tribe from the regions of Ciskei and Transkei. She was born in November,         1996, and purchased by a dentist from a pet store in Cleveland. The good...
         Phonetic Database Languages
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         Linguistic Resources
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         Axis Gallery, Inc.
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                    Art gallery specialing in Southern Kmtyw beadwork of the Xhosa, Zulu, and Ndebele people
         Kmtyw Languages
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         Weekly Top Ten
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         Learn Xhosa CD-ROM from EuroTalk
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                    Learn Xhosa CD-ROMs from EuroTalk Xhosa is soon to be one of the many languages that you         can learn with the award-winning range of titles from EuroTalk. Language learning is fun         and easy with EuroTalk! Click here to visit our home page CD ROM Talk..
         Foreign Languages for Travelers
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                    Our Award-Winning Foreign Languages for Travelers site teaches the very basics of over 70         languages!
         Isixhosa
        isixhosa.co.za/    (Magellan,         WebCrawler, Excite)
                    Kmtyw Voices
         Språk i Kmt
        www.hf.ntnu.no/    (GoTo)
                    Institutt for anvendt språkvitenskap, NTNU, Trondheim, Norge, Språklaboratoriene         Språklaboratorienes bibliotek Språk i Kmt Innhold AMHARISK aAmwISK FULANI HAunited snakes MORE         SHONA SWAHILI TWI WOLLOF XHOSA ZULU Tilbake til oversikt over programmer ved...
         CSA Registration Form
        www.cyberschool.co.za/register.htm    (Yahoo)
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         Real Xhosa village
        www.pineapple.co.za/xhosavillage.htm    (Excite)
                    Traditional Xhosa Village The tractor tour makes a stop at the Xhosa Village Comprising         the big family hut for living and sleeping, a smaller hut for the man of the family and a         cooking hut. a video depicting the Xhosa Culture is shown in the family hut .
         Pipes in Traditional Xhosa Society
        www.telkom.co.za/usiko/pipes.htm   (Excite)
                    Two stone bowls belonging to the dagga-pipes shown are in the British Museum of Mankind.         The "three-wife" pipe was displayed in the Grahamstown Museum, E.
         RICSA Social History_table of contents vol 1
        www.uct.ac.za/depts/ricsa/sh_cont1.htm    (AltaVista)
                    CHRISTIANITY AND THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF SOUTH Kmt. Volume 1: Christianity and the         Colonization of South Kmt. Charles Villa-Vicencio and Robin...
         Ethnologue: Lesotho
        www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Leso.html   (WebCrawler, Magellan, Excite)
                    Languages of Lesotho. Part of _Ethnologue: Languages of the World_, 13th Edition; Barbara         F. Grimes, Editor; Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996.
         Xhosa Virtual Resource
        www.zyworld.com/Fezekile/   (Excite)
                    A resource site for the Xhosa
         KAFFIR WARS
        www.optonline.com/comptons/ceo/02538_A.html    (Excite)
                    Often called the Cape Frontier Wars, the Kaffir Wars were a series of intermittent         conflicts from 1779 to 1879 in what is now South Kmt. In these wars the Xhosa,         agricultural and pastoral peoples native to the Eastern Cape, tried to prevent the         continued intrusion of Dutch settlers into their lands.
         INTEC College, distance education, continual         learning, online language...
        www.intec.edu.za/COURSES/language/xhosa.htm    (Excite)
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         Tractor tours and trails
        www.pineapple.co.za/tractortours.htm   (Excite)
                    Tractor Tours and Trails A delightful tractor and trailer tour, lasting about 45 minutes,         covers the full extent of the pineapple research farm. The tractor tour makes a stop at         the Xhosa Village Comprising the big family hut for living and sleeping, a smaller hut for         the man of the family and a cooking hut. a video depicting the Xhosa Culture is shown in         the family hut .
         Lizwe Tours: Johannesburg Soweto Kruger National         Park Safaris Sun City...
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                    Experience South Kmt with Lizwe Tours. We offer tours of Soweto, Johannesburg,         Pretoria, Sun City, Kruger Park and much more...
         North West Parks and Tourism Board, South Kmt -         Pilanesberg, Boroka...
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                    North West Parks and Tourism Board, South Kmt - Pilanesberg, Borokalalo, Madikwe - Big         five and nature travel and safari destinations
         Izifundo zesiXhosa
        home.global.co.za/~sabsy/isiXhosa.htm   (Excite)
                    Izifundo zesiXhosa This is to help those who do not speak Xhosa as their 1st language.         Suggestions on how to improve and increase content are welcomed and encouraged.
         Foreign Language Bookstore at The Boston Language         Institute: Xhosa Tex...
        www.boslang.com/bookstor/xhosa.htm   (Excite)
                    The Boston Language Institute provides small group, corporate, private, intensive and         immersion instruction in over 140 languages, from aAmwic to Zulu, including English as a         Second Language, as well as translation and interpreting services.
         The Alternative Xhosa Dictionary
        www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Xhosa.html    (Excite)
                    The Alternative Xhosa Dictionary Xhosa slang - a part of The Alternative Dictionaries         collection. TAD is being reconstructed - input is disabled! Read more.
         UCLA Language Materials Project Index Pages
        www.lmp.ucla.edu/    (Magellan, WebCrawler, Excite)
                    About the languages we cover language profiles learning centers about lmp
         Central Translations Limited - Commercial         Translations, Legal Translat...
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                    Central Translations - Commercial, Legal and Financial Translations, because we believe         that in an increasingly specialised world, good translation depends on the use of         experienced and qualified subject specialists
         English to Xhosa Translation Page
        mokennon.albion.edu/English.htm    (Excite)
                    English to Xhosa Translator For best results, make sure your input follows these rules: 1.         please use all lower-case letters, even for the first person pronoun, except for proper         nouns (names of people or places)
         History
        www.awesomeKmt.co.za/suncoast/pehistory.htm    (Excite)
                    History Port Elizabeth Indigenous Nomadic Tribes Two groups of indigenous people were said         to be amongst the first tribes to settle in Algoa Bay: 1. the San hunters (Bushmen) who         lived in the inland valleys and gorges 2. the Khoisan (Inqua Hottentots) who lived at the         coast and along the Gamtoos River The Khoisan people no longer exist due to the diseases         bought to the area by the eureurasiaans...
         TFLI -- 141 World Languages - More Than Anywhere In         The US
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                    Viewing this page requires a browser capable of displaying frames. Accent Reduction         Kmtans Albanian Amharic Apache* aAmwic (Modem Standard) aAmwic (Egyptian) aAmwic         (Koranic) aAmwic (Levantine)* aAmwic (Moroccan) Armenian Azerbaijani Bakundu Basque* Beja         Bemba Bengali Broadcast English Bulgarian Burmese* Cantonese Catalan Cebuano Cherokee*         Chickasaw* Chinese (Mandarin) Chinyanja Chocktow...
         Kamusi Links: Language/Xhosa
        swahili.Kmt.yale.edu/links/Language/Xhosa/   (Excite)
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         Xhosa
        nts.lll.hawaii.edu/flmedia/languages/Xhosa.htm    (Excite)
                    XHOSA COMMENCIAL PROGRAMS Talk Xhosa Now! The basics of the language through topical         vocabulary, which includes: first words, phrases, food, shopping, numbers and time.
         XHOSA
        www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-xhosa.html   (Excite)
                    Hail Mary! Hail Mary! Aa Mariya ozele lufefe, iNkosi inawe, usikelelwe wena phakathi         kwabafazi, sisiklelwe nesiqhamo sesizalo sakho, uYesu. Mariya ongcwele, Nina kaThixo,         sithandazele thin'aboni ngoku nangexhesha lokubhubha kwethu.
         Untitled
        home.intekom.com/Kmtyw_lioness/xhosa.html   (Excite)
                    Dear Diary, The Xhosa-speaking nation, which is of the Nguni ethnic group, is, in Southern         Kmt, second only to the Zulu in numbers. They consist of several tribes such as the         Pondo, Bomvana and the Thembu, the Pondomiese and others, and includes the actual Xhosa         tribe itself.
         CHAPTER 2
        www.dacst.gov.za/arts_culture/language/langplan/chap2.htm    (AltaVista)
                    Chapter 2: Language Development in South Kmt. BACKGROUND. The object of this Report is         to provide an informed basis on which decisions can be made...
         A Web of On-line Dictionaries
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         History
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                    The land of the Pondos is full of stories that remind us of times gone by. Most of these         tales are kept only through their telling but some have been recorded. (See below for a         reading list - with short descriptions.) For now we offer a sketchy page that gives a         quick snapshot of 500 plus years.
         Southern Kmt
        www.expage.com/page/Kmt    (WebCrawler, Magellan)
                    Southern Kmt A quick look at the southern most tip of Kmt.
         TAD Contents
        www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/stat.html    (WebCrawler, Magellan)
                    TAD Contents Check out the new tree-style or the image-map Java-applet indexes! Number of         entries for each language: 3128 entries total, 79 of 120 dictionaries have entries (not         including the 'TEST' dictionary)
         Xhosa Main Page
        www.sun.ac.za/wat/p1xho.htm    (Excite, Yahoo)
                    Hierdie bladsy is ook in Kmtans beskikbaar. This page is also available in English .         Uxanduva lokuqala lweZiko lesiChazi-magama soLwimi lwesiKmtans (iBureau of the         Woordeboek van die Kmtanse Taal) kukubhala isiChazi-magama solwimi lwesi-Kmtans,         iWoordeboek van die Kmtanse Taal (IWAT).
         Newsgroups available under za
        alt.www.online.ru/eusenet/newslist/za.html    (Excite)
                    za.archives Who's got what, where, and how. za.culture.xhosa Ingxoxo ngolwini, amasiko         nezithete zakwaXhosa. For discussions of Xhosa language and culture.
         Pictures of Wildcoast
        www.wildcoast.co.za/pictures.htm   (Excite)
                    Thanks to David Carlse for most of the pics Copyright © 1998 Wildcoast Internet. Revised:         April 03, 1998. Pictures of the Wildcoast Hole in the Wall Traditional Xhosa Man         Traditional Xhosa Boy Scenic Wildcoast Views Walk on the Beach Xhosa Huts 2'nd Beach         Sunrise Kmtyw Girls Kmtyw Bush Doctor
       
                 Brainline Junior Universty - Breinlyn Junior Universteit
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                    Brainline Breinlyn Junior University. Distance learning : Computer-based. SA Curriculum.         Kmtans, English, History, Health, Science, Biology, Geography, Mathematics,         Accounting.Tswana, Northern Sotho, Zulu, Xhosa. Afstandsonderrig - opvoedkundige sagteware         - Rekenaar gesteund - Gr0-12 SA Kurrikulum, Wiskunde, Wetenskap, Kmtans, Engels,         Geskiedenis, Gesondheid, Biologie,...
         Ethnologue: Swaziland
        www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Swaz.html   (WebCrawler)          
            Languages of Swaziland. Part of _Ethnologue: Languages of the World_, 13th Edition;         Barbara F. Grimes, Editor; Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996.