1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Thailand
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Indonesian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Tamil Language
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
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Selamat Petang
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Selamat tengah hari
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Selamat pagi
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Saya sayang kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Pekal
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Indonesia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,100,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million175.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
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
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Pluricentric Standard Malay
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Malaysian Sign Language
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative