Countries
India
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Bangladesh, India
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
  
Pan South African Language Board
  
Interesting Facts
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
- 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.
  
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
  
Xhosa Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Assamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
nomoskaar
  
Sawubona
  
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
  
Ngiyabonga
  
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
  
unjani
  
Good Night
subhoraattri
  
okuhle ebusuku
  
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
  
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
  
okuhle ntambama
  
Good Morning
suprobhaat
  
okuhle ekuseni
  
Please
anugroha kori
  
Ngiyacela
  
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
  
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Bye
biḍai
  
bye
  
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
  
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
  
Qwabe
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Gabon, South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Goalpariya
  
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Georgia, South Africa
  
Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
  
Ndebele
  
Where They Speak
Assam
  
Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
12.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
  
isiZulu
  
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
  
Isizulu, Zunda
  
French Name
assamais
  
zoulou
  
German Name
Assamesisch
  
Zulu-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Assamese people
  
Zulu people
  
Origin
7th century A.D
  
19
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Indic
  
Beatu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Kamarupa
  
urban Zulu
  
Standard Forms
Assamese
  
Deep Zulu
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
as
  
zu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
asm
  
zul
  
ISO 639 2/B
asm
  
zul
  
ISO 639 3
asm
  
zul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
assa1263
  
zulu1248
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
  
99-AUT-fg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Assamese and Zulu Speaking population
Assamese and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Assamese and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Assamese and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Assamese and Zulu on Assamese vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Assamese and Zulu Language Codes
Assamese and Zulu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Assamese and Zulu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.