1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.8 National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
South Africa
1.10 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.12 Speaking Continents
1.14 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.15 Regulated By
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Pan South African Language Board
2.3 Interesting Facts
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
- 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.
2.4 Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Xhosa Language
2.5 Derived From
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3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.4 Phonology
3.4.1 How Many Vowels
3.4.3 How Many Consonants
3.8 Scripts
3.9 Writing Direction
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3.10 Hard to Learn
3.10.1 Language Levels
5.2.3 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
6.4 Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
okuhle ebusuku
6.5 Good Evening
6.6 Good Afternoon
6.7 Good Morning
Mangwanani
okuhle ekuseni
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
Ndinokuda
Ngiyakuthanda wena
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Gabon, South Africa
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
8.2 Dialect 2
Karanga
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
8.2.1 Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Georgia, South Africa
8.2.2 How Many People Speak
8.5 Dialect 3
8.5.1 Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Zimbabwe
8.5.2 How Many People Speak
9.4 Total No. Of Dialects
11 How Many People Speak
11.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
11.2 Speaking Population
11.3 Native Speakers
8.30 million12.00 million
0.13
873
11.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.3.2 Native Name
11.3.3 Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Isizulu, Zunda
11.3.4 French Name
11.3.5 German Name
Schona-Sprache
Zulu-Sprache
11.4 Pronunciation
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11.5 Ethnicity
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Zulu people
12 History
12.1 Origin
12.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
12.2.1 Subgroup
12.2.2 Branch
12.3 Language Forms
12.3.1 Early Forms
12.3.2 Standard Forms
12.3.3 Language Position
12.3.4 Signed Forms
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12.4 Scope
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
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13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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