1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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
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
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
unjani
3.4 Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Ngiyacela
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Marwari
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
380.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
260.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
120.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European 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
Indian Signing System
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
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available