Not surprisingly I have to work with an interpreter all the time at the moment and probably will have to for the whole year. Just a note on the strike, it is supposed to get worse tomorrow with the unions calling for a complete shut-down of the country. We have been promised a skeleton of staff for the hospital which I hope we will get. Understandably the nurses have been quite scared as working nurses in larger central hospitals have been physically abused but other strikers.
It is spoken by about 6. 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 Xhosa is written using a Latin alphabet-based system.
Three letters are used to indicate the basic clicks: c for dental clicks, x for lateral clicks, and q for palatal clicks for a more detailed explanation, see the table of consonant phonemes, below. Tones are not indicated in the written form. Te Xh in Xhosa is pronounced with a sideways click - it's the one you make to horses, with your tongue in cheek not against your front teeth, if that helps.
More of a "Donk! The Wiki article has a soundfile that sounds about right, although not as "clicky" as I or anyone I know does it. I'm not a Xhosa speaker, but my wife is. Xhosa is an official language in South Africa and Zimbabe, and is used as a language of instruction in primary schools, and in some secondary schools. It is also taught in universities.
There are books, magazines and newspapers in Xhosa, as well as TV and radio programmes, films, plays and songs. Xhosa is closely related to Zulu , Swati and Ndebele , and mutually intelligible with them to some extent. 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 published in Bonke abantu bazalwa bekhululekile belingana ngesidima nangokweemfanelo. Xhosa Letters Description Example Translation c pull the tip of the tongue away from the back of the upper front teeth; tsk, tsk -cela ask for x pull tongue from top side of mouth; the click used to make a horse speed up uxolo peace q pull tongue down from roof of mouth; the sound of a cork popping amaqanda eggs Three final notes 1.
The accent in Xhosa is on the penultimate syllable, the second to last syllable 2. Two vowels usually don't stand together. There are two exceptions oo and ii. If, in grammatical construction, two vowels are placed together, a change is typically made so that only one vowel is written.
Spoken Xhosa results in shortened words that are run together.
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