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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
110
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Portugal
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
  • Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
  • The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Spanish and Galician Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Latin
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
5723
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
79
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
5019
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
36
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sawubona
Olá
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
obrigado
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
Como você está?
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
boa noite
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
boa Noite
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
boa Tarde
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
bom Dia
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
Por Favor
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
pesaroso
3.10 Bye
bye
tchau
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Eu te amo
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
desculpe me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Qwabe
Brazilian Portuguese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Brazil
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA204,000,000.00
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
European Portuguese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Portugal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000,000.00
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Ndebele
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Daman and Diu
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,000.00
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
426
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million231.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.16 %3.27 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million216.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million15.00 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
Português
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Português
5.3.4 French Name
zoulou
portugais
5.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Portugiesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Portuguese people or portugueses
6 History
6.1 Origin
19
3rd Century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Romance
6.2.2 Branch
Beatu
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Medieval Galician
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Portuguese
6.3.3 Language Position
876
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Portuguese
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zu
pt
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zul
por
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
zul
por
7.3 ISO 639 3
zul
por
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
zulu1248
port1283
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
51-AAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available

Zulu and Portuguese Alphabets

Zulu and Portuguese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Zulu and Portuguese. In Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters while in Portuguese Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Zulu and Portuguese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Zulu and Portuguese languages. The Zulu phonology consist Zulu vowels and Zulu consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Zulu greetings vs Portuguese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Zulu and Portuguese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Zulu and Portuguese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Zulu and Portuguese dialects. Various dialects of Zulu and Portuguese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Zulu are spoken in different Zulu Speaking Countries whereas Portuguese Dialects are spoken in different Portuguese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Zulu vs Portuguese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Zulu dialects include: Qwabe, central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Portuguese dialects include: Brazilian Portuguese , European Portuguese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Zulu and Portuguese Speaking population

Zulu and Portuguese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Portuguese languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Portuguese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 %. 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 Portuguese on Zulu vs Portuguese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and Portuguese Language Codes

Zulu and Portuguese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Portuguese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.