1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sawubona
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
спасибо(spasibo)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Olonets
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Olonets
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
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 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic