1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
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
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Farsi Language
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
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Evare baş
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Bayanit bash
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Central Kurdish
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA5,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Not Available
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
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available