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
Palau
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Korean Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sawubona
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ありがとう (Arigatō)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
おはよう (Ohayō)
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Kagawa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Hakata
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Fukuoka
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 million128.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million128.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Japanese (Yamato)
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Japonic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Japanese
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic