Xhosa
Xhosa is a Niger-Congo language
spoken in Southern Africa. There are about 7,000,000 speakers who are
located primarily in the Southern part of the country of South Africa and about
18,000 in Lesotho. It is one of the national languages of South
Africa. As the other African languages it is a tonal language, other than
western languages, it is governed by the noun - which dominates the sentence.
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