Countries
South Africa
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
South Africa
  
China, Mongolia
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
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.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
bye
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Mongolia
  
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
isiZulu
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Not Available
  
French Name
zoulou
  
mongol
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
19
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Zulu and Mongolian Speaking population
Zulu and Mongolian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Mongolian languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Mongolian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Mongolian 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 Mongolian on Zulu vs Mongolian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Zulu and Mongolian Language Codes
Zulu and Mongolian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Mongolian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.