1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
South Africa
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
Not Available
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
- 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
Not Available
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
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
Alina tsara
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
Maraina tsara
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Tiako ianao.
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Merina
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Sakalava
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
700
80000000
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?
NA30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
18.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Zulu-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Malagasy people
Zulu people
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
No early forms
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Deep Zulu
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
No data available
99-AUT-fg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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