1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.4 National Language
1.5 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.8 Speaking Continents
1.9 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.11 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Not Available
1.13 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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
1.16 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Old German Language
1.17 Derived From
Not Available
Prakrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
3.6 Phonology
3.6.1 How Many Vowels
3.10.3 How Many Consonants
5.2 Scripts
5.3 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
5.4 Hard to Learn
5.4.1 Language Levels
7.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
8 Greetings
8.1 Hello
Sawubona
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
8.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
8.3 How Are You?
unjani
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
8.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
8.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
शुभः सायंकालः
8.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
शुभ दुपार
8.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
8.8 Please
Ngiyacela
कृपया (kripayā)
8.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
8.10 Bye
bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
8.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
8.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
9 Dialects
9.1 Dialect 1
9.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Not Available
9.1.2 How Many People Speak
11.3 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Not present
11.3.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Not Available
11.3.2 How Many People Speak
13.3 Dialect 3
13.3.1 Where They Speak
13.3.2 How Many People Speak
13.6 Total No. Of Dialects
14 How Many People Speak
14.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million14.10 million
0.13
1200
14.4 Speaking Population
16.2 Native Speakers
12.00 million14.10 million
0.13
873
18.8.2 Second Language Speakers
19.8.1 Native Name
isiZulu
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
19.8.2 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Not Available
19.8.3 French Name
19.8.4 German Name
19.9 Pronunciation
Not Available
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
19.10 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Not Available
20 History
20.1 Origin
20.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
20.2.1 Subgroup
20.2.2 Branch
20.3 Language Forms
20.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Vedic Sanskrit
20.3.2 Standard Forms
20.3.3 Language Position
20.3.5 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
20.4 Scope
21 Code
21.1 ISO 639 1
21.2 ISO 639 2
21.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
21.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
21.3 ISO 639 3
21.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
21.5 Glottocode
21.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
21.7 Types of Language
21.7.1 Language Type
21.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
21.7.3 Language Morphological Typology