Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Turkey
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Pan South African Language Board
  
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
- 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
Azerbaijani Language
  
Xhosa Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
Sawubona
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
Ngiyabonga
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
unjani
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
okuhle ebusuku
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
okuhle ntambama
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
okuhle ekuseni
  
Please
lütfen
  
Ngiyacela
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
bye
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Qwabe
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Gabon, South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Georgia, South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Ndebele
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
12.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Türkçe
  
isiZulu
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Isizulu, Zunda
  
French Name
turc
  
zoulou
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Zulu-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Zulu people
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
19
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Beatu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
urban Zulu
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Deep Zulu
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
zu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
zul
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
zul
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
zul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
zulu1248
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
99-AUT-fg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Turkish and Zulu Speaking population
Turkish and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Turkish and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Turkish and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Turkish language is 0.95 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Turkish and Zulu on Turkish vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Turkish and Zulu Language Codes
Turkish and Zulu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Turkish and Zulu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.