1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
1.9 Similar To
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
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
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Ju faleminderit
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
natën e mirë
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
mirëmbrëma
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
mirëmengjes
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
unë e dua ju
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Tosk Albanian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA100,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million3.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
shqip / gjuha shqipe
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Albanian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
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
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology