1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
- 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
Serbain and Bosnian
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Church Slavonic
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
3.5 Good Evening
dobra večer
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
dobar dan
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
dobro jutro
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Volim te
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Croatia
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
660,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Chakavian
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Croatia
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Zimbabwe
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
89.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.60 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
1.25 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Deep Zulu
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
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
part of 53-AAA-g
99-AUT-fg
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
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available