Countries
South Africa
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
sila
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
maaf
  
Bye
bye
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
isiZulu
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Not Available
  
French Name
zoulou
  
malais
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
19
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Zulu and Malaysian Speaking population
Zulu and Malaysian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Malaysian languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Malaysian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 %. 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 Malaysian on Zulu vs Malaysian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Zulu and Malaysian Language Codes
Zulu and Malaysian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Malaysian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.