1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Caucasian languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
unjani
3.4 Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Not Available
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Not available
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Abzhywa
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Caucasus
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
0.13 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.13 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
isiZulu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-fg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available