1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
5.6 Phonology
5.6.1 How Many Vowels
8.14.7 How Many Consonants
8.15 Scripts
8.16 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
8.17 Hard to Learn
8.17.1 Language Levels
8.17.2 Time Taken to Learn
9 Greetings
9.1 Hello
9.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
amesege'nallo'
9.3 How Are You?
9.4 Good Night
9.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
melkam meshe't
9.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
i'ndemin walu
9.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
i'ndemin adäru
9.8 Please
9.9 Sorry
9.10 Bye
9.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
afekirishalehu
9.12 Excuse Me
10 Dialects
10.1 Dialect 1
10.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Gondar
10.1.2 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
10.3 Dialect 3
10.3.1 Where They Speak
10.3.2 How Many People Speak
10.4 Total No. Of Dialects
11 How Many People Speak
11.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million18.70 million
0.13
1200
11.2 Speaking Population
11.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
11.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
11.3.2 Native Name
11.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
11.3.4 French Name
11.3.5 German Name
11.4 Pronunciation
11.5 Ethnicity
12 History
12.1 Origin
12.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
12.2.1 Subgroup
12.2.2 Branch
12.3 Language Forms
12.3.1 Early Forms
12.3.2 Standard Forms
12.3.3 Language Position
12.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Amharic
12.4 Scope
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology