Orang Xhosa (;[2][3]) ialah kumpulan etnik Nguni di Afrika Selatan yang tanah air mereka terutamanya dalam Tanjung Timur zaman moden. Terdapat komuniti kecil tetapi ketara berbahasa Xhosa (Mfengu) di Zimbabwe, dan bahasa mereka, isiXhosa, diiktiraf sebagai bahasa kebangsaan.[4]
Xhosa
AmaXhosa|
| 8,104,752 (Banci 2011) |
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 Afrika Selatan | 7,834,203
Cape Timur: 5,092,152
Cape Barat: 1,403,233
Gauteng: 796,841
Free State: 201,145
KwaZulu-Natal: 340,832
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 Zimbabwe | 200,000[1] |
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 Botswana | 12,000 |
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| Xhosa (penutur Zulu, English, dan/atau Afrikaans) |
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| traditional African religions, Christianity |
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| Southern Ndebele,
Zulu, Hlubi, Swati, and Northern Ndebele |
- ^ Hlenze Welsh Kunju, 2017 Isixhosa Ulwimi Lwabantu Abangesosininzi eZimbabwe: Ukuphila Nokulondolozwa Kwaso, PhD Dissertation, Rhodes University.
- ^ "Xhosa – pronunciation of Xhosa". Macmillan Dictionary. Macmillan Publishers Limited. Dicapai pada 16 April 2014.
- ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
- ^ Nombembe, Caciswa. "Music-making of the Xhosa diasporic community: a focus on the Umguyo tradition in Zimbabwe." Masters dissertation, School of Arts, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, 2013.
Afrika Selatan
Zimbabwe
Botswana