1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Pakistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
سلام علیکم
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
گڈ آفٹر نون
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
مجھے تم سے محبت
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
India
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA11,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Hyderabadi Urdu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
India
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million104.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million61.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Standard Urdu
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Urdu
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
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