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
Israel
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Academy of the Hebrew Language
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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Arabic and Aramaic languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Aramaic 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
Right-To-Left, 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?
unjani
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
בבקשה (bevekshah)
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
סליחה! (Slicha)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Israel
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Samaritan Hebrew
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Israel, Palestine
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 million9.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million4.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Israeli, Ivrit
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Hebrew
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic