1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
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
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Amharic and Hebrew
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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
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
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
تصبح على خير
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
مساء الخير
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
مساء الخير
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
صباح الخير
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Sudanese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Sudan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA17,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA21,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million452.00 million
0.13
1200
1.4 Speaking Population
1.9 Native Speakers
12.00 million206.00 million
0.13
873
1.9.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million246.00 million
0.01
400
1.9.2 Native Name
isiZulu
(al arabiya) العربية
1.9.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
1.9.4 French Name
1.9.5 German Name
1.10 Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
1.11 Ethnicity
2 History
2.1 Origin
2.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
2.2.1 Subgroup
2.2.2 Branch
2.3 Language Forms
2.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
2.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Standard Arabic
2.3.3 Language Position
2.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Arabic
2.4 Scope
3 Code
3.1 ISO 639 1
3.2 ISO 639 2
3.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
3.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
3.3 ISO 639 3
3.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
3.5 Glottocode
3.6 Linguasphere
3.7 Types of Language
3.7.1 Language Type
3.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
3.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic