Countries
South Africa
  
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Spain
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
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.
  
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
French Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
hola
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
Gracias
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
Cómo estás?
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
Buenas Noches
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Bonne soirée
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
Buenas Tardes
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
Buenos Días
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
Por Favor
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
triste
  
Bye
bye
  
adiós
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Te Quiero
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Discúlpeme
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Mexican Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Mexico
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
105,000,000.00
  
5
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Cuban Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Cuba
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
11,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Puerto Rico
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,900,000.00
  
9
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
489.00 million
  
3
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
410.00 million
  
2
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
89.50 million
  
9
Native Name
isiZulu
  
Español
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
French Name
zoulou
  
espagnol; castillan
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Spanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
19
  
210 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Romance
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Spanish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
es
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
spa
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
spa
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
spa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
stan1288
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
51-AAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic