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
East Timor, Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Malay language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Malay and Dutch Languages
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
Not Available
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?
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Malam yang baik
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Selamat Sore
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Selamat Pagi
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Aku cinta kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Indonesia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA38,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Balinese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,300,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Indonesia, Malaysia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA6,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million163.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million23.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Bahasa Indonesia
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Bahasa Indonesia
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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