1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Gambia, Nigeria
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Nigeria
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Not Available
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
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
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
mai kyau dare
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
barka da yamma
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
barka da rana
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
mai kyau safe
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Ina son ku
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Ghana
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Kurhwayanci
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Niger
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 million50.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million35.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Haussa-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Hausa–Fulani people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology