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Countries
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Countries
South Africa 0

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
South Africa 0

Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe 0

Speaking Continents
Africa 0

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board 0

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.
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Similar To
Xhosa Language 0

Derived From
Not Available 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
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Alphabets
57 34

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
7 4

How Many Consonants
50 35

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Not Available 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings
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Hello
Sawubona 0

Thank You
Ngiyabonga 0

How Are You?
unjani 0

Good Night
okuhle ebusuku 0

Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa 0

Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama 0

Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni 0

Please
Ngiyacela 0

Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa 0

Bye
bye 0

I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena 0

Excuse Me
Uxolo 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Qwabe 0

Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu 0

Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Ndebele 0

Where They Speak
Zimbabwe 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
4 4

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million 36

Speaking Population
0.16 % 48

Native Speakers
12.00 million 44

Second Language Speakers
16.00 million 17

Native Name
isiZulu 0

Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda 0

French Name
zoulou 0

German Name
Zulu-Sprache 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Zulu people 0

History
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Origin
19 0

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family 0

Subgroup
Benue-Congo 0

Branch
Beatu 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
urban Zulu 0

Standard Forms
Deep Zulu 0

Language Position
87 58

Signed Forms
Not Available 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
zu 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
zul 0

ISO 639 2/B
zul 0

ISO 639 3
zul 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
zulu1248 0

Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg 0

Types of Language
0

Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object 0

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available 0

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Know Alphabets in Zulu

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Zulu Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Zulu Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Zulu. Zulu phonology gives Zulu vowels and Zulu consonants. There are 7 vowels and 50 consonants in Zulu language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Zulu is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Zulu language is given in detail in this section.

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All Zulu countries

Want to explore all Zulu countries? About Zulu language serves you with all Zulu Speaking Countries. Countries that use Zulu as official language are called as Zulu countries.

  • Countries that use Zulu as their National Language are: South Africa.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Zulu as second language are: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe.

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Learn Zulu greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Zulu Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Zulu language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Zulu language.Learn Zulu greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Sawubona
  • Thank you: Ngiyabonga
  • Good Morning: okuhle ekuseni
  • Good Evening: okuhle kusihlwa
  • Good Afternoon: okuhle ntambama

All Zulu Language Codes

Get to know all Zulu language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Zulu Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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