1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.4 National Language
1.5 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.6 Speaking Continents
1.7 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.8 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Not Available
1.9 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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
1.10 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Kannada Language
1.11 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.6.2 How Many Consonants
2.7 Scripts
2.8 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.9 Hard to Learn
2.9.1 Language Levels
4.2.3 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
5.3 How Are You?
5.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
yedde rathre
5.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
yedde baiyya
5.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
yedde madhyana
5.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
yedde kaande
5.8 Please
5.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Yenna thapu aandu
5.10 Bye
5.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
5.12 Excuse Me
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Tamil Nadu
6.1.2 How Many People Speak
6.3 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Jain
6.3.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Tamil Nadu
6.3.2 How Many People Speak
7.2 Dialect 3
7.2.1 Where They Speak
7.2.2 How Many People Speak
7.3 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million1.70 million
0.13
1200
8.2 Speaking Population
8.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million1.70 million
0.13
873
9.3.4 Second Language Speakers
10.7.4 Native Name
10.7.5 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
10.7.6 French Name
10.7.7 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Not Available
10.8 Pronunciation
Not Available
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10.9 Ethnicity
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Dravidian Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
11.2.2 Branch
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
11.3.2 Standard Forms
11.3.3 Language Position
11.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
11.4 Scope
12 Code
12.1 ISO 639 1
12.2 ISO 639 2
12.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
12.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
12.3 ISO 639 3
12.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
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12.5 Glottocode
12.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
12.7 Types of Language
12.7.1 Language Type
12.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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12.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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