Countries
Fiji, India
  
South Africa
  
National Language
India
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
  
Pan South African Language Board
  
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
- 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
Urdu
  
Xhosa Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Sawubona
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
Ngiyabonga
  
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
unjani
  
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
okuhle ebusuku
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
okuhle ntambama
  
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
okuhle ekuseni
  
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Ngiyacela
  
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
  
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
bye
  
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Khariboli
  
Qwabe
  
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
Gabon, South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Marwari
  
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
Georgia, South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Bundeli
  
Ndebele
  
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
  
Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
4
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million
  
5
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
260.00 million
  
4
12.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million
  
6
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
हिन्दी
  
isiZulu
  
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
Isizulu, Zunda
  
French Name
hindi
  
zoulou
  
German Name
Hindi
  
Zulu-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
  
Zulu people
  
Origin
7th Century
  
19
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Indic
  
Beatu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
urban Zulu
  
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
  
Deep Zulu
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hi
  
zu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hin
  
zul
  
ISO 639 2/B
hin
  
zul
  
ISO 639 3
hin
  
zul
  
ISO 639 6
hins
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hind1269
  
zulu1248
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
  
99-AUT-fg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Hindi and Zulu Speaking population
Hindi and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Hindi and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Hindi and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Hindi language is 4.70 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Hindi and Zulu on Hindi vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Hindi and Zulu Language Codes
Hindi and Zulu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Hindi and Zulu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.