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
Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
unjani
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Ngiyacela
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Kagawa
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Hakata
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Fukuoka
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?
128.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
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-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Not Available