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
Not Available
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
- 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
Bengali and Assamese
Xhosa Language
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
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Latin
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
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
unjani
3.4 Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
India
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Ganjami
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India
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
520,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
33.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
33.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Oriya-Sprache
Zulu-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
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
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
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-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available