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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
14
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
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
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
5724
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
75
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
5021
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
33
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sawubona
Habari
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Asante
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
Habari gani?
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Usiku mwema
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Habari za jioni
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
nzuri Alasiri
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Habari za asubuhi
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
tafadhali
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
pole
3.10 Bye
bye
bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
nakupenda
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
Samahani
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Qwabe
Kiunguja
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Zanzibar island
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Kimrima
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Dar es Salaam
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Ndebele
Kimgao
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Kilwa
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
412
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million150.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.16 %NA
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million15.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 millionNA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
5.3.4 French Name
zoulou
swahili
5.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Swahili
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Swahili people or Waswahili
6 History
6.1 Origin
19
6th century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
Beatu
Bantu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Swahili
6.3.3 Language Position
87NA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zu
sw
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zul
swa
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
zul
swa
7.3 ISO 639 3
zul
swa
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
zulu1248
swah1254
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
99-AUS-m
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available

Zulu and Swahili Alphabets

Zulu and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Zulu and Swahili. In Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Zulu and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Zulu and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Zulu and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Zulu and Swahili 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 Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Zulu and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Zulu are spoken in different Zulu Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Zulu vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Zulu dialects include: Qwabe, central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Zulu and Swahili Speaking population

Zulu and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available. 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 Swahili on Zulu vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and Swahili Language Codes

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