Countries
South Africa
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
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.
  
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
bye
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Macedonia
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
isiZulu
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
zoulou
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
19
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Macedonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic
  
Zulu and Macedonian Speaking population
Zulu and Macedonian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Macedonian languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Macedonian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Macedonian language is Not Available. 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 Macedonian on Zulu vs Macedonian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Zulu and Macedonian Language Codes
Zulu and Macedonian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Macedonian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.