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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
16
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
France, Germany, Indonesia
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
  • Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
  • There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
German and English Languages
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
76
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
5021
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
36
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sawubona
Hallo
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
dankjewel
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
hoe gaat het met je?
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
goede Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
goedenavond
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
goedemiddag
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
goedemorgen
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
alsjeblieft
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
sorry
3.10 Bye
bye
vaarwel
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Ik hou van jou
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
pardon
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Qwabe
Gronings
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Netherlands
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA590,000.00
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Low Saxon
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,000,000.00
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Ndebele
Limburgian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Belgium, Netherlands
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,300,000.00
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
47
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million28.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.16 %0.32 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million22.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million6.00 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
Nederlands
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Hollands, Nederlands
5.3.4 French Name
zoulou
néerlandais; flamand
5.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Niederländisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Dutch people
6 History
6.1 Origin
19
AD 450-500
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
Beatu
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Dutch
6.3.3 Language Position
8748
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zu
nl
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zul
nld
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
zul
dut
7.3 ISO 639 3
zul
nld
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
zulu1248
mode1257
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
52-ACB-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Historical
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic

Zulu and Dutch Alphabets

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

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

Zulu and Dutch Speaking population

Zulu and Dutch speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Dutch languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Dutch Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 %. 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 Dutch on Zulu vs Dutch where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and Dutch Language Codes

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