1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
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
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available