1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Philippines
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
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Hiligaynon Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Island of Cebu
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
Not Available
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
Maayong Gabii
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Maayong Gabii
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Maayong Hapon
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Maayong Buntag
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Gihigugma ko ikaw
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Bohol
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Southern Kana
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
southern Leyte
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
northern part of Leyte
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 millionNA
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million14.50 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Cebuano people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Cebuano
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available