1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
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 earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Bengali and Assamese
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
1.7.3 How Many Consonants
1.8 Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
1.9 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
1.10 Hard to Learn
1.10.1 Language Levels
1.10.2 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
Sawubona
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
2.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
2.3 How Are You?
unjani
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
2.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
2.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
2.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
2.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
2.8 Please
2.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
2.10 Bye
2.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
2.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
3.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
India
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
3.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Ganjami
3.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
India
3.2.2 How Many People Speak
3.3 Dialect 3
3.3.1 Where They Speak
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA520,000.00
1400
96000000
3.4 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million33.00 million
0.13
1200
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million33.00 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.2 Native Name
4.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Oriya-Sprache
4.4 Pronunciation
4.5 Ethnicity
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
5.2.2 Branch
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
5.3.2 Standard Forms
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Indian Signing System
5.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available