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
India
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Dzongkha Development 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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Sikkimese Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Tibetan 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
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Kaadinchhey La
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
lek shom ay zim
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Not Available
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Not Available
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Nga cheu lu ga
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Bhutan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Lunana
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Bhutan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million0.64 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million0.17 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not available
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Ngalop people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available