1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
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
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
- 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
Kurdish and Persian
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
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
Perso-Arabic script
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
jawáin shap
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
jawáin begáh
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
jawáin sawáh
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
bebaksh / bebagsh
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Tu mana doost biyeh
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Pakistan
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Western Balochi
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
Zimbabwe
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
7.60 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.60 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Belutschisch
Zulu-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available