1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Bulgaria, European Union
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
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Macedonian language
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sawubona
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
3.10 Bye
bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Обичам те (Običam te)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Qwabe
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Bulgaria
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Panagyurishte
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Bulgaria
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million7.80 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
български (bãlgarski)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Bulgarian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Bulgarian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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