1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
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
Cyrillic, Macedonian 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
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
Како си? (Kako si?)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Добар ден (Dobar den)
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Те сакам (Te sakam)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Debar
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Macedonia
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 million2.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million2.50 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
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
urban Zulu
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Macedonian Sign Language
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology