1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Pakistan
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Pakistan
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
- 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
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian 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
Right-To-Left, 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
سلام علیکم
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
India
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
104.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
61.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
43.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
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
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Deep Zulu
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology