1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Qwabe
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Ndebele
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
Rank: 36 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.16 %
Rank: 48 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million
Rank: 44 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
Rank: 17 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
zoulou
5.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
19
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
Beatu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zu
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zul
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
zul
7.3 ISO 639 3
zul
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
zulu1248
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available