1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.7 National Language
South Africa
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
1.9 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.11 Speaking Continents
1.14 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.17 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Not Available
1.19 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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
2.4 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Munda Language
2.6 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.2 Alphabets in
3.3 Alphabets
4.4 Phonology
4.4.1 How Many Vowels
4.5.3 How Many Consonants
4.6 Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
4.8 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
4.10 Hard to Learn
4.10.1 Language Levels
4.14.3 Time Taken to Learn
7 Greetings
8.1 Hello
8.3 Thank You
8.5 How Are You?
8.7 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Boge Ninda
8.9 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Boge Ayup’
8.11 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Not Available
8.13 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Boge Setak’
8.15 Please
8.17 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Not Available
8.19 Bye
8.21 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Not Available
8.23 Excuse Me
9 Dialects
9.2 Dialect 1
9.2.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
India
10.1.1 How Many People Speak
10.3 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Not present
10.4.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Not Available
10.4.3 How Many People Speak
10.7 Dialect 3
10.7.1 Where They Speak
10.7.2 How Many People Speak
10.10 Total No. Of Dialects
13 How Many People Speak
13.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million6.30 million
0.13
1200
13.4 Speaking Population
13.7 Native Speakers
12.00 million6.30 million
0.13
873
14.3.5 Second Language Speakers
16.3.4 Native Name
16.3.5 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
16.3.6 French Name
16.3.7 German Name
16.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
16.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
17 History
17.1 Origin
17.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
17.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
17.2.2 Branch
17.3 Language Forms
17.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
17.3.2 Standard Forms
17.3.3 Language Position
18.7.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
18.8 Scope
19 Code
19.1 ISO 639 1
19.2 ISO 639 2
19.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
19.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
19.3 ISO 639 3
19.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
19.5 Glottocode
19.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
19.7 Types of Language
19.7.1 Language Type
19.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
19.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available