1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
- 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
Not Available
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
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
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
I love you
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
United States of America
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
400.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
400.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
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
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard English
Deep Zulu
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed English
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Not Available