Example sentences for: xhosa
How can you use “xhosa” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
(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).
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.
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.