Countries
South Africa
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
bye
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
isiZulu
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
zoulou
  
népalais
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
19
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Zulu and Nepali Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Zulu and Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Zulu and Nepali language. Zulu word for "Hello" is Sawubona or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Zulu Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Zulu vs Nepali Difficulty
The Zulu vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Zulu Alphabets and Nepali Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Zulu and Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Zulu and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Zulu is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.