1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.6 National Language
1.7 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.10 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
1.15 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.
1.18 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Not Available
1.19 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.7 Phonology
3.7.1 How Many Vowels
3.10.5 How Many Consonants
7.3 Scripts
7.4 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
7.5 Hard to Learn
7.5.1 Language Levels
7.7.3 Time Taken to Learn
10 Greetings
10.1 Hello
10.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
amesege'nallo'
10.3 How Are You?
10.4 Good Night
10.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
melkam meshe't
10.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
i'ndemin walu
10.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
i'ndemin adäru
10.8 Please
10.9 Sorry
10.10 Bye
10.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
afekirishalehu
10.12 Excuse Me
11 Dialects
11.1 Dialect 1
11.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Gondar
11.1.2 How Many People Speak
13.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Gojjami
13.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Ethiopia
13.2.2 How Many People Speak
13.8 Dialect 3
13.8.1 Where They Speak
13.8.2 How Many People Speak
14.3 Total No. Of Dialects
16 How Many People Speak
16.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million18.70 million
0.13
1200
18.8 Speaking Population
19.8 Native Speakers
12.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
20.3.4 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
21.7.4 Native Name
21.7.5 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
21.7.6 French Name
21.7.7 German Name
21.8 Pronunciation
21.9 Ethnicity
22 History
22.1 Origin
22.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
22.2.1 Subgroup
22.2.2 Branch
22.3 Language Forms
22.3.1 Early Forms
22.3.2 Standard Forms
22.3.3 Language Position
22.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Amharic
22.4 Scope
23 Code
23.1 ISO 639 1
23.2 ISO 639 2
23.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
23.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
23.3 ISO 639 3
23.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
23.5 Glottocode
23.6 Linguasphere
23.7 Types of Language
23.7.1 Language Type
23.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
23.7.3 Language Morphological Typology