Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Spain
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
Pan South African Language Board
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
- 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
French Language
  
Xhosa Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hola
  
Sawubona
  
Thank You
Gracias
  
Ngiyabonga
  
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
  
unjani
  
Good Night
Buenas Noches
  
okuhle ebusuku
  
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
  
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
  
okuhle ntambama
  
Good Morning
Buenos Días
  
okuhle ekuseni
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Ngiyacela
  
Sorry
triste
  
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Bye
adiós
  
bye
  
I Love You
Te Quiero
  
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
  
Qwabe
  
Where They Speak
Mexico
  
Gabon, South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
Georgia, South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Ndebele
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
12.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Español
  
isiZulu
  
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
Isizulu, Zunda
  
French Name
espagnol; castillan
  
zoulou
  
German Name
Spanisch
  
Zulu-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Zulu people
  
Origin
210 BC
  
19
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Beatu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
urban Zulu
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Deep Zulu
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
es
  
zu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
zul
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
zul
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
zul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
zulu1248
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
99-AUT-fg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available