Example sentences for: xhosa
How can you use “xhosa” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
While English is currently the most important language, it is the first language of only a small proportion of speakers: according to official estimates for 1989-90, English, with two million first-language speakers, is well behind Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Tswana, and North Sotho.
It is a made-up language like Pidgin and, unlike Esperanto or Volapük, is based on a real tongue, Nguni, related to Zulu and Xhosa.
(To be consistent, the DOSAE would have to indicate the word for left in all languages that appear in road signs in different parts of the country--Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho and Tswana).
There is certainly a need for words of Afrikaans origin that recur in English texts (often for local color effect) to be glossed somewhere: a reference work like the DOSAE might be more convenient for readers than an Afrikaans or Xhosa or some other dictionary.