Countries
South Africa
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
South Africa
  
India
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
bye
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
isiZulu
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
zoulou
  
hindi
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
19
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Standard Hindi
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Zulu and Hindi Speaking population
Zulu and Hindi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Hindi languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Hindi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hindi language is 4.70 %. 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 Hindi on Zulu vs Hindi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Zulu and Hindi Language Codes
Zulu and Hindi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Hindi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.