1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- 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
Malay language
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
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
Selamat Malam
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
Malam yang baik
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Balinese
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
Zimbabwe
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
163.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
23.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
140.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Zulu-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
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
No data available
99-AUT-fg
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
Agglutinative
Not Available