1 Countries
1.1 Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
East Asia, European Union
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
- 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
Not Available
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
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
Bonan nokton
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
Bonan matenon
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Mi amas vin
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not present
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not present
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not present
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
2.20 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.20 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
Not Available
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
Proto-Esperanto
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
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
Agglutinative
Not Available