1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Finland
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
- 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
Norwegian and Danish Language
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Old Norse 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
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
god kväll
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
god morgon
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
jag älskar dig
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Dialects
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
15.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.70 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
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
Northern (Scandinavian)
Beatu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
Deep Zulu
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
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
52-AAA-ck to -cw
99-AUT-fg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available