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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
11
Bhojpuri
0 46
2.4 National Language
South Africa
Ethiopia
2.5 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.6 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
2.7 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.8 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Not Available
2.9 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.
2.10 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Not Available
2.11 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
5733
Irish
18 247
6.5 Phonology
7.0.1 How Many Vowels
77
Hebrew
0 32
8.7.4 How Many Consonants
5031
German
9 60
8.8 Scripts
Latin
Ethiopic
8.9 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
8.10 Hard to Learn
8.10.1 Language Levels
33
Bengali
2 12
8.10.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
Cebuano
3 88
9 Greetings
9.1 Hello
Sawubona
Selam
9.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
amesege'nallo'
9.3 How Are You?
unjani
Dehina newot?
9.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Dehna dur
9.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
melkam meshe't
9.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
i'ndemin walu
9.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
i'ndemin adäru
9.8 Please
Ngiyacela
i'bakwon
9.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
aznallehu
9.10 Bye
bye
tschao
9.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
afekirishalehu
9.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
yiqirta
10 Dialects
10.1 Dialect 1
Qwabe
Gondar
10.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Gondar
10.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
Macedonian
1.5 960000000
10.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Gojjami
10.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Ethiopia
10.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
Dzongkha
700 80000000
10.3 Dialect 3
Ndebele
Showa
10.3.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Ethiopia
10.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
Romanian
1400 96000000
10.4 Total No. Of Dialects
45
Sanskrit
0 188
11 How Many People Speak
11.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million18.70 million
Abkhaz
0.13 1200
11.2 Speaking Population
0.16 %0.37 %
Xhosa
0.11 89
11.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million25.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 873
11.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.00 million
Finnish
0.01 400
11.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
Not Available
11.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
11.3.4 French Name
zoulou
amharique
11.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Amharisch
11.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[amarɨɲɲa]
11.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Amharas
12 History
12.1 Origin
19
13th century
12.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
12.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Semitic
12.2.2 Branch
Beatu
Ethiopic
12.3 Language Forms
12.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Ge'ez
12.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Amharic
12.3.3 Language Position
8755
Chinese
1 120
12.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Amharic
12.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
zu
am
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zul
amh
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
zul
amh
13.3 ISO 639 3
zul
amh
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
13.5 Glottocode
zulu1248
amha1245
13.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
12-ACB-a
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional