1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Caucasian languages
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
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sawubona
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Not Available
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Not available
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Abkhazia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Abzhywa
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Caucasus
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?
30.00 million0.13 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million0.13 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Abxazo, Abkhazian
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Abkhaz people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Northwest Caucasian
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative