Countries
South Africa
China, Nepal
National Language
South Africa
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Sawubona
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
unjani
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Ngiyacela
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
isiZulu
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
zoulou
tibétain
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Zulu people
tibetan people
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Beatu
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Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
zulu1248
tibe1272
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Zulu and Tibetan 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 Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Zulu and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Zulu are spoken in different Zulu Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Zulu vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Zulu dialects include: Qwabe, central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Zulu and Tibetan Speaking population
Zulu and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan 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 Tibetan on Zulu vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Zulu and Tibetan Language Codes
Zulu and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.
