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Xhosa (isiXhosa)
Native to: South Africa
Region: Eastern Cape, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape, Free State
Ethnicity: Xhosa
Native speakers: 8.2 million (2020 March 08) / 11 million L2 speakers (2002) isiXhosa is one of the official languages in post democratic South Africa.
Language family: Niger–Congo

is a Nguni Bantu language with click consonants and is one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. Xhosa is spoken as a first language by approximately 8.2 million people and by another 11 million as a second language in South Africa, mostly in Eastern Cape Province, Western Cape, Gauteng and Northern Cape. It is also notable for having perhaps the heaviest functional load of click consonants in a Bantu language (approximately tied with Yeyi), with one count finding that 10% of basic vocabulary items contained a click.

Xhosa is part of the branch of Nguni languages known as Zunda languages, which also include Zulu, Southern Ndebele and Northern Ndebele. Zunda languages effectively form a dialect continuum of variously mutually intelligible varieties.

Xhosa is, to some extent, mutually intelligible with Zulu and Northern Ndebele, and other Nguni languages to a lesser extent. Nguni languages are, in turn, part of the much larger group of Bantu languages.

LINKS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa_language
https://web.archive.org/web/20071214071133/http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=21&menu=004
https://web.archive.org/web/20070311094133/http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Xhosa
http://learn101.org/xhosa.php
https://omniglot.com/writing/xhosa.htm
https://www.jw.org/en/