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
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
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
شكرا
How Are You?
unjani
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
مساء الخير
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
صباح الخير
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
أحبك
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Sudan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Levantine
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Cyprus, Levant
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
isiZulu
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Arabisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Arabs
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Semitic
Branch
Beatu
North Arabic
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Standard Arabic
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Arabic
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
zulu1248
arab1395
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Zulu and Arabic Speaking population
Zulu and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Zulu and Arabic on Zulu vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Zulu and Arabic Language Codes
Zulu and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.