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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
12
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
South Africa
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
5728
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
78
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
5020
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
310
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sawubona
您好
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
你好吗?
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
早上好
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
遗憾
3.10 Bye
bye
再见
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Qwabe
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Xiguan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Ndebele
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Hong Kong
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
43
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million60.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.16 %16.00 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million52.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 millionNA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
zoulou
Not Available
5.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
19
17th century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Beatu
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
87NA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zu
No data available
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zul
Not Available
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
zul
Not Available
7.3 ISO 639 3
zul
No data available
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
zulu1248
cant1236
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available

Zulu and Cantonese Alphabets

Zulu and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Zulu and Cantonese. In Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Zulu and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Zulu and Cantonese languages. The Zulu phonology consist Zulu vowels and Zulu consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Zulu greetings vs Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Zulu and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Zulu and Cantonese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Zulu and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Zulu and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Zulu are spoken in different Zulu Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Zulu vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Zulu dialects include: Qwabe, central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Zulu and Cantonese Speaking population

Zulu and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Cantonese on Zulu vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and Cantonese Language Codes

Zulu and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.