Countries
South Africa
  
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
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.
  
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Old Norse Language
  
Alphabets in
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
Mange tak
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
Hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
God nat
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
God aften
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
God eftermiddag
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
God morgen
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
Please
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Undskyld!
  
Bye
bye
  
Farvel
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Jeg elsker dig
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Undskyld mig
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Scanian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Jutlandic
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Denmark
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Bornholmsk
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Island of Bornholm
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
5.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
5.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
isiZulu
  
dansk
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
French Name
zoulou
  
danois
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Dänisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Danish people or Danes
  
Origin
19
  
c. 1100 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Rigsdansk
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Danish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
da
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
dan
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
dan
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
dan
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
dani1284
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Zulu and Danish Speaking population
Zulu and Danish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Danish languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Danish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Danish language is Not Available. 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 Danish on Zulu vs Danish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Zulu and Danish Language Codes
Zulu and Danish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Danish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.