1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.6 National Language
1.7 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.8 Speaking Continents
1.9 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.10 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Not Available
1.11 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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
1.12 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Not Available
1.13 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
8.3 Phonology
8.3.1 How Many Vowels
8.6.3 How Many Consonants
9.2 Scripts
9.3 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
9.4 Hard to Learn
9.4.1 Language Levels
10.3.1 Time Taken to Learn
12 Greetings
12.1 Hello
12.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
amesege'nallo'
12.3 How Are You?
12.4 Good Night
12.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
melkam meshe't
12.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
i'ndemin walu
12.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
i'ndemin adäru
12.8 Please
12.9 Sorry
12.10 Bye
12.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
afekirishalehu
12.12 Excuse Me
13 Dialects
13.1 Dialect 1
13.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Gondar
13.1.2 How Many People Speak
13.3 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Gojjami
13.3.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Ethiopia
13.3.2 How Many People Speak
15.4 Dialect 3
15.4.1 Where They Speak
15.4.2 How Many People Speak
17.11 Total No. Of Dialects
19 How Many People Speak
19.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million18.70 million
0.13
1200
20.8 Speaking Population
20.9 Native Speakers
12.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
20.9.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
20.9.2 Native Name
20.9.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
20.9.4 French Name
20.9.5 German Name
20.10 Pronunciation
20.11 Ethnicity
21 History
21.1 Origin
21.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
21.2.1 Subgroup
21.2.2 Branch
21.3 Language Forms
21.3.1 Early Forms
21.3.2 Standard Forms
21.3.3 Language Position
21.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Amharic
21.4 Scope
22 Code
22.1 ISO 639 1
22.2 ISO 639 2
22.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
22.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
22.3 ISO 639 3
22.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
22.5 Glottocode
22.6 Linguasphere
22.7 Types of Language
22.7.1 Language Type
22.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
22.7.3 Language Morphological Typology