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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
15
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
South Africa
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
5726
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
724
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
5023
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
36
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 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Qwabe
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA960,000,000.00
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Wu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Ndebele
Yue
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
410
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million1,051.00 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 million873.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million178.00 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
zoulou
chinois
5.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Chinesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Han
6 History
6.1 Origin
19
1250 BC
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 Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
871
Persian
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zu
zh
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zul
zho
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
zul
chi
7.3 ISO 639 3
zul
zho
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
zulu1248
sini1245
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
79-AAA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating

Zulu and Chinese Alphabets

Zulu and Chinese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Zulu and Chinese. In Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters while in Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Zulu and Chinese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Zulu and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Zulu and Chinese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Zulu and Chinese 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 Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Zulu and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Zulu are spoken in different Zulu Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Zulu vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Zulu dialects include: Qwabe, central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Zulu and Chinese Speaking population

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

Zulu and Chinese Language Codes

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