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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
21
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  • 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
Chinese Language
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2857
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
87
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2050
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
103
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
谢谢
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗?
unjani
3.4 Good Night
晚安
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
早上好
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
3.9 Sorry
遗憾
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
再见
bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
原谅我
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Qwabe
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Xiguan
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Ndebele
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Zimbabwe
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
34
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million30.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
16.00 %0.16 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million12.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA16.00 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
isiZulu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
Not Available
zoulou
5.3.5 German Name
Not Available
Zulu-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th century
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6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Beatu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Deep Zulu
6.3.3 Language Position
NA87
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Not Available
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
No data available
zu
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
zul
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
zul
7.3 ISO 639 3
No data available
zul
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
cant1236
zulu1248
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Not Available
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available

Cantonese and Zulu Alphabets

Cantonese and Zulu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and Zulu. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters. To learn Cantonese and Zulu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and Zulu languages. The Cantonese phonology consist Cantonese vowels and Cantonese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Cantonese greetings vs Zulu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and Zulu are Most Spoken Languages.

All Cantonese and Zulu Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Zulu dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Zulu language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Zulu Dialects are spoken in different Zulu speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Zulu Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Zulu dialects include: Qwabe , central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Cantonese and Zulu Speaking population

Cantonese and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % 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 Cantonese and Zulu on Cantonese vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Zulu Language Codes

Cantonese and Zulu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Zulu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.