1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Bulgaria, European Union
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
3.2 National Language
3.3 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
3.4 Speaking Continents
3.5 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
3.6 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Institute for the Bulgarian language
3.7 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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
3.8 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Macedonian language
3.9 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
4 Alphabets
4.1 Alphabets in
4.2 Alphabets
4.5 Phonology
4.5.1 How Many Vowels
5.1.1 How Many Consonants
5.3 Scripts
5.4 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
5.5 Hard to Learn
5.5.1 Language Levels
5.7.1 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
Sawubona
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
6.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
6.3 How Are You?
6.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
6.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
6.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
6.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
6.10 Bye
bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
6.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Обичам те (Običam te)
6.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
Qwabe
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Bulgaria
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
8.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Panagyurishte
8.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Bulgaria
8.2.2 How Many People Speak
8.3 Dialect 3
8.3.1 Where They Speak
8.3.2 How Many People Speak
9.4 Total No. Of Dialects
10 How Many People Speak
10.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.80 million
0.13
1200
11.4 Speaking Population
11.9 Native Speakers
12.00 million7.80 million
0.13
873
12.3.4 Second Language Speakers
12.3.5 Native Name
isiZulu
български (bãlgarski)
12.3.6 Alternative Names
12.3.7 French Name
12.3.8 German Name
12.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
12.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Not Available
13 History
13.1 Origin
13.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
13.2.1 Subgroup
13.2.2 Branch
13.3 Language Forms
13.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
13.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Bulgarian
13.3.3 Language Position
14.7.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Bulgarian Sign Language
14.8 Scope
15 Code
15.1 ISO 639 1
15.2 ISO 639 2
15.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
15.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
15.3 ISO 639 3
15.4 ISO 639 6
15.5 Glottocode
15.6 Linguasphere
15.7 Types of Language
15.7.1 Language Type
15.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
15.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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