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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
101
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Portugal
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
United States of America
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
  • The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
  • 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
Spanish and Galician Languages
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Latin
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2357
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
97
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
1950
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
63
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Olá
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
obrigado
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
Como você está?
unjani
3.4 Good Night
boa noite
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
boa Noite
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
bom Dia
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
Por Favor
Ngiyacela
3.9 Sorry
pesaroso
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
tchau
bye
3.11 I Love You
Eu te amo
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
desculpe me
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Qwabe
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Brazil
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00NA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
European Portuguese
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Portugal
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00NA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Ndebele
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Zimbabwe
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4,000.00NA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
264
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
231.00 million30.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
3.27 %0.16 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million12.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million16.00 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Português
isiZulu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Português
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
portugais
zoulou
5.3.5 German Name
Portugiesisch
Zulu-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
3rd Century
19
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Romance
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Beatu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Medieval Galician
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Portuguese
Deep Zulu
6.3.3 Language Position
687
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
pt
zu
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
por
zul
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
por
zul
7.3 ISO 639 3
por
zul
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
port1283
zulu1248
7.6 Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
99-AUT-fg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available

Portuguese and Zulu Alphabets

Portuguese and Zulu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Portuguese and Zulu. In Portuguese Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters. To learn Portuguese and Zulu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Portuguese and Zulu languages. The Portuguese phonology consist Portuguese vowels and Portuguese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Portuguese greetings vs Zulu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Portuguese and Zulu are Most Spoken Languages.

All Portuguese and Zulu Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Portuguese and Zulu dialects. Various dialects of Portuguese and Zulu language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Portuguese are spoken in different Portuguese Speaking Countries whereas Zulu Dialects are spoken in different Zulu speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Portuguese vs Zulu Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Portuguese dialects include: Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese. Zulu dialects include: Qwabe , central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Portuguese and Zulu Speaking population

Portuguese and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Portuguese and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Portuguese and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Portuguese and Zulu on Portuguese vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Portuguese and Zulu Language Codes

Portuguese and Zulu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Portuguese and Zulu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.