Countries
South Africa
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Azerbaijan, Gambia
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Turkish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Osmanly language
  
Alphabets in
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Azerbaijani-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
Salam
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
Təşəkkür edirəm
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
necəsən
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
yaxşı gecə
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Axşamınız xeyir
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
Günortanız Xeyir
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
Sabahınız xeyir
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
lütfən
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
üzr
  
Bye
bye
  
xudafiz
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Mən səni sevirəm
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Bağışlayın
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Derbent
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Russia
  
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Gazakh
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Azerbaijan
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Baku
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Azerbaijan
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
26.00 million
  
39
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
isiZulu
  
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
  
French Name
zoulou
  
azéri
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Aserbeidschanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Azerbaijani
  
Origin
19
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Azerbaijani
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
az
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
aze
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
aze
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
aze
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
azer1255
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Zulu and Azerbaijani Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Zulu and Azerbaijani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Zulu and Azerbaijani language. Zulu word for "Hello" is Sawubona or Azerbaijani word for "Thank You" is Təşəkkür edirəm. Find more of such common Zulu Greetings and Azerbaijani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Zulu vs Azerbaijani Difficulty
The Zulu vs Azerbaijani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Zulu Alphabets and Azerbaijani Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Zulu and Azerbaijani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Zulu and Azerbaijani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Zulu is 44 weeks while to learn Azerbaijani time required is 44 weeks.