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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
51
Bhojpuri
0 46
1.3 National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
  • There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  • 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
Norwegian and Swedish
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Old Norse Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2957
Irish
18 247
1.3 Phonology
1.3.1 How Many Vowels
207
Hebrew
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2050
German
9 60
2.7 Scripts
Latin
Latin
2.8 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.9 Hard to Learn
2.9.1 Language Levels
33
Bengali
2 12
4.1.3 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
Cebuano
3 88
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
Hallo
Sawubona
2.2 Thank You
Mange tak
Ngiyabonga
2.3 How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
unjani
2.4 Good Night
God nat
okuhle ebusuku
2.5 Good Evening
God aften
okuhle kusihlwa
2.6 Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
okuhle ntambama
2.7 Good Morning
God morgen
okuhle ekuseni
2.8 Please
Please
Ngiyacela
2.9 Sorry
Undskyld!
Ngiyaxolisa
2.10 Bye
Farvel
bye
2.11 I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
Ngiyakuthanda wena
2.12 Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
Uxolo
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
Scanian
Qwabe
3.1.1 Where They Speak
Sweden
Gabon, South Africa
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
80,000.00NA
Macedonian
1.5 960000000
4.4 Dialect 2
Jutlandic
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.4.1 Where They Speak
Denmark
Georgia, South Africa
4.4.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
Dzongkha
700 80000000
5.2 Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
Ndebele
5.2.1 Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
Zimbabwe
5.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
Romanian
1400 96000000
5.7 Total No. Of Dialects
44
Sanskrit
0 188
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
5.50 million30.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 1200
8.4 Speaking Population
NA0.16 %
Xhosa
0.11 89
9.5 Native Speakers
5.50 million12.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 873
10.2.1 Second Language Speakers
NA16.00 million
Finnish
0.01 400
11.9.1 Native Name
dansk
isiZulu
11.9.2 Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
Isizulu, Zunda
11.9.3 French Name
danois
zoulou
11.9.4 German Name
Dänisch
Zulu-Sprache
11.10 Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
Not Available
11.11 Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
Zulu people
12 History
12.1 Origin
c. 1100 AD
19
12.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
12.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
12.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Beatu
12.3 Language Forms
12.3.1 Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
urban Zulu
12.3.2 Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
Deep Zulu
12.3.3 Language Position
NA87
Chinese
1 120
13.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Danish
Not Available
13.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
14 Code
14.1 ISO 639 1
da
zu
14.2 ISO 639 2
14.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
dan
zul
14.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
dan
zul
14.3 ISO 639 3
dan
zul
14.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
14.5 Glottocode
dani1284
zulu1248
14.6 Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
99-AUT-fg
14.7 Types of Language
14.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
14.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
14.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Not Available