1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Anatolian Languages
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
Arabic, Georgian script
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
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
ბოდიში (bodishi)
3.10 Bye
bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Kartlian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Kartli
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 million4.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million4.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Kartvelian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Georgian
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
Agglutinative, Synthetic