Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
South Africa
  
National Language
France
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Pan South African Language Board
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Xhosa Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Sawubona
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Ngiyabonga
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
unjani
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
okuhle ebusuku
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
okuhle ntambama
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
okuhle ekuseni
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Ngiyacela
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Bye
au revoir
  
bye
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Qwabe
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Gabon, South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Georgia, South Africa
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Ndebele
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
12.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
français
  
isiZulu
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Isizulu, Zunda
  
French Name
français
  
zoulou
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Zulu-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Zulu people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
19
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Beatu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
urban Zulu
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Deep Zulu
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
zu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
zul
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
zul
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
zul
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
zulu1248
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
99-AUT-fg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
French and Zulu Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where French and Zulu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in French and Zulu language. French word for "Hello" is bonjour or Zulu word for "Thank You" is Ngiyabonga. Find more of such common French Greetings and Zulu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
French vs Zulu Difficulty
The French vs Zulu difficulty level basically depends on the number of French Alphabets and Zulu Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare French and Zulu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in French and Zulu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn French is 24 weeks while to learn Zulu time required is 44 weeks.