1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
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
Not Available
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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Old German Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Prakrit Language
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
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
शुभः सायंकालः
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
शुभ दुपार
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
कृपया (kripayā)
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
3.10 Bye
bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Not present
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Not Available
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 million14.10 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million14.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Vedic Sanskrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
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
No data available
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