Countries
South Africa
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
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.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
bye
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
isiZulu
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
zoulou
  
birman
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
19
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Zulu and Burmese 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 Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Zulu and Burmese language. Zulu word for "Hello" is Sawubona or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Zulu Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Zulu vs Burmese Difficulty
The Zulu vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Zulu Alphabets and Burmese 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 Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Zulu and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Zulu is 44 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.