1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
NA
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Bengali Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
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
Sawubona
નમસ્તે (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Kharwa
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million50.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Gujarati-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Gujarati
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available