1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Bangladesh, India
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not Available
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
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1.10 Derived From
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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
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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
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
babha janmiet
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
babha noph-phai-sngi
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
ieit ieit
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Nonglung
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Not Available
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 million0.84 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million0.84 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Khasi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
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6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
No Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
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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
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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
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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