Countries
South Africa
  
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
  
National Language
South Africa
  
North Korea, South Korea
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
The National Institute of the Korean Language
  
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.
  
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Chinese and Japanese languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Hangul
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
하십시오 (hasibsio)
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
  
Bye
bye
  
안녕 (annyeong)
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Jeju
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Gyeongsang
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Hamgyŏng
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
China, North Korea
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
77.00 million
  
22
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
isiZulu
  
한국어 (조선말)
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
  
French Name
zoulou
  
coréen
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Koreanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Koreans
  
Origin
19
  
Before 1st century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Koreanic Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Korean Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
ko
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
kor
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
kor
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
Kor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
kore1280
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
45-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Zulu and Korean Speaking population
Zulu and Korean speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Korean languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Korean Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Korean language is 1.14 %. 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 Korean on Zulu vs Korean where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Zulu and Korean Language Codes
Zulu and Korean language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Korean Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.