Countries
South Africa
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
South Africa
  
France
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
désolé
  
Bye
bye
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
isiZulu
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Français
  
French Name
zoulou
  
français
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
19
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Romance
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Standard French
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic