Countries
South Africa
  
Turkey, Uzbekistan
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Uzbek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
Salom
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
Rakhmat
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
Qalay siz?
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
Hayirli tun
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Hayirli kech
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
Hayirli kun
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
Hayirli tong
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
Iltimos
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Kechiring!
  
Bye
bye
  
Xayr
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Sizni sevaman
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Iltimos! Menga qarang
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Tashkent
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Afghan
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Ferghana
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
25.00 million
  
40
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
26.00 million
  
31
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
isiZulu
  
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
zoulou
  
ouszbek
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Usbekisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Uzbek
  
Origin
19
  
9th–12th centuries AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Southestern(Chagatai)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Chagatay
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Uzbek
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
uz
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
uzbe1247
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Zulu and Uzbek Speaking population
Zulu and Uzbek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Uzbek languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Uzbek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Uzbek language is 0.39 %. 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 Uzbek on Zulu vs Uzbek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Zulu and Uzbek Language Codes
Zulu and Uzbek language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Uzbek Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.