2 Countries
2.1 Countries
South Africa
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
2.3 Total No. Of Countries
1.6 National Language
1.8 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.11 Speaking Continents
1.12 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.14 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Not Available
1.17 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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
2.3 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Not Available
2.5 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.2 Alphabets in
3.3 Alphabets
1.5 Phonology
1.5.1 How Many Vowels
2.2.3 How Many Consonants
2.10 Scripts
2.11 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.12 Hard to Learn
2.12.1 Language Levels
2.12.5 Time Taken to Learn
7 Greetings
7.1 Hello
7.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
amesege'nallo'
7.3 How Are You?
7.4 Good Night
7.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
melkam meshe't
7.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
i'ndemin walu
7.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
i'ndemin adäru
7.8 Please
7.9 Sorry
7.10 Bye
7.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
afekirishalehu
7.12 Excuse Me
8 Dialects
8.1 Dialect 1
8.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Gondar
8.1.2 How Many People Speak
10.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Gojjami
10.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Ethiopia
10.2.2 How Many People Speak
10.6 Dialect 3
10.6.1 Where They Speak
10.6.2 How Many People Speak
11.2 Total No. Of Dialects
13 How Many People Speak
13.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million18.70 million
0.13
1200
13.5 Speaking Population
14.2 Native Speakers
12.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
15.4.2 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
18.7.4 Native Name
18.7.5 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
18.7.6 French Name
18.7.7 German Name
18.8 Pronunciation
18.9 Ethnicity
19 History
19.1 Origin
19.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
19.2.1 Subgroup
19.2.2 Branch
19.3 Language Forms
19.3.1 Early Forms
19.3.2 Standard Forms
19.3.3 Language Position
19.4.1 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Amharic
19.6 Scope
21 Code
21.1 ISO 639 1
21.3 ISO 639 2
21.3.1 ISO 639 2/T
21.3.3 ISO 639 2/B
21.4 ISO 639 3
21.6 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
21.7 Glottocode
21.8 Linguasphere
21.9 Types of Language
21.9.1 Language Type
21.9.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
21.9.3 Language Morphological Typology