Countries
India
  
South Africa
  
National Language
India
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Pan South African Language Board
  
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.
  
Similar To
Old German Language
  
Xhosa Language
  
Derived From
Prakrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
  
Sawubona
  
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
  
Ngiyabonga
  
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
  
unjani
  
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
  
okuhle ebusuku
  
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
  
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
  
okuhle ntambama
  
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
  
okuhle ekuseni
  
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
  
Ngiyacela
  
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
  
bye
  
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
  
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Not present
  
Qwabe
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Gabon, South Africa
  
Dialect 2
Not present
  
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Georgia, South Africa
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Ndebele
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Zimbabwe
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
14.10 million
  
99+
12.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
  
isiZulu
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Isizulu, Zunda
  
French Name
sanskrit
  
zoulou
  
German Name
Sanskrit
  
Zulu-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Zulu people
  
Origin
2000 B.C.
  
19
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Indic
  
Beatu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
  
urban Zulu
  
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
  
Deep Zulu
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sa
  
zu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
san
  
zul
  
ISO 639 2/B
san
  
zul
  
ISO 639 3
san
  
zul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sans1269
  
zulu1248
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
99-AUT-fg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Ancient
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Sanskrit and Zulu Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Sanskrit and Zulu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sanskrit and Zulu language. Sanskrit word for "Hello" is नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ) or Zulu word for "Thank You" is Ngiyabonga. Find more of such common Sanskrit Greetings and Zulu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sanskrit vs Zulu Difficulty
The Sanskrit vs Zulu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sanskrit Alphabets and Zulu Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Sanskrit and Zulu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sanskrit and Zulu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sanskrit is 20 weeks while to learn Zulu time required is 44 weeks.