Countries
South Africa
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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.
  
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
سلام
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
متاسف
  
Bye
bye
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
isiZulu
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
zoulou
  
persan
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Persian people
  
Origin
19
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Zulu and Persian Speaking population
Zulu and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Zulu vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Zulu and Persian Language Codes
Zulu and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.