1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Bangladesh, Burma
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Pali Language
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
Sawubona
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
3.10 Bye
bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA2,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Tavoyan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Myanmar
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA440,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA90,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million43.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million33.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Burmese sign language
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
99-AUT-fg
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating