1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.3 National Language
2.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.5 Speaking Continents
2.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Not Available
2.8 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.
- 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.
2.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Not Available
2.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.4 Phonology
3.4.1 How Many Vowels
3.4.3 How Many Consonants
1.5 Scripts
1.6 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
1.7 Hard to Learn
1.7.1 Language Levels
2.2.1 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
amesege'nallo'
5.3 How Are You?
5.4 Good Night
5.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
melkam meshe't
5.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
i'ndemin walu
5.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
i'ndemin adäru
5.8 Please
5.9 Sorry
5.10 Bye
5.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
afekirishalehu
5.12 Excuse Me
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Gondar
6.1.2 How Many People Speak
6.3 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Gojjami
6.3.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Ethiopia
6.3.2 How Many People Speak
6.8 Dialect 3
6.8.1 Where They Speak
6.8.2 How Many People Speak
6.10 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million18.70 million
0.13
1200
10.3 Speaking Population
1.5 Native Speakers
12.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
1.6.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
2.3.3 Native Name
2.3.4 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
2.3.5 French Name
2.3.7 German Name
2.4 Pronunciation
2.5 Ethnicity
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.3 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
3.4.1 Subgroup
4.2.2 Branch
4.4 Language Forms
4.4.1 Early Forms
4.4.3 Standard Forms
4.4.5 Language Position
4.5.5 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Amharic
4.6 Scope
5 Code
5.1 ISO 639 1
5.2 ISO 639 2
5.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
5.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
5.3 ISO 639 3
5.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Glottocode
5.6 Linguasphere
5.7 Types of Language
5.7.1 Language Type
5.8.1 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
5.8.2 Language Morphological Typology