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
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Prakrit 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
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
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
unjani
3.4 Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
कृपया (kripayā)
Ngiyacela
3.9 Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
bye
3.11 I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not present
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
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?
14.10 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
14.10 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
isiZulu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Zulu people
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
Vedic Sanskrit
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
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
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology