1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Not Available
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.
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Not Available
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
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
Alina tsara
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Manao ahoana e
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Manao ahoana e
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Maraina tsara
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Tiako ianao.
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Merina
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA5,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Western Malagasy
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Sakalava
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
700
80000000
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 millionNA
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million18.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Malagasy Sign Language
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Malagassi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Malagasy people
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
urban Zulu
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
standard Malagasy
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
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
Verb-Object-Subject
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available