1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
China, Mongolia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
China, Mongolia
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
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Turkish Language
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
Latin
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
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
Sawubona
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Mongolia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Ordos Mongolian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Mongolia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA123,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Ndebele
Khorchin Mongolian
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 million5.70 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million5.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Mongolic family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Mongolian 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
part of 44-BAA-b
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available