1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Nigeria
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
- 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
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Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
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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
mai kyau dare
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
barka da yamma
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
barka da rana
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
mai kyau safe
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ina son ku
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Ghana
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Niger
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?
50.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
35.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Zulu-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
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
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