Countries
South Africa
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
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.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
bye
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
isiZulu
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Suomi
  
French Name
zoulou
  
finnois
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
19
  
1543
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Zulu and Finnish Speaking population
Zulu and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish 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 Finnish on Zulu vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Zulu and Finnish Language Codes
Zulu and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.