1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
hyvää yötä
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Hyvää iltaa
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Hyvää huomenta
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Finland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Rauma
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Finland, Rauma
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million5.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million5.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
standard Finnish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Finnish
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
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic