1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit 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
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
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA790,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Bajhangi
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
India, Nepal
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
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
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
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
Agglutinative