1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.6 National Language
1.7 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
1.10 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Not Available
1.11 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.
1.12 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Old German Language
1.13 Derived From
Not Available
Prakrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
4.1 Phonology
4.2.1 How Many Vowels
4.5.4 How Many Consonants
6.8 Scripts
6.9 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
6.10 Hard to Learn
6.10.1 Language Levels
7.1.1 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
9.3 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Not present
9.3.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Not Available
9.3.2 How Many People Speak
9.5 Dialect 3
9.5.1 Where They Speak
9.5.2 How Many People Speak
9.6 Total No. Of Dialects
11 How Many People Speak
11.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million14.10 million
0.13
1200
12.8 Speaking Population
12.9 Native Speakers
12.00 million14.10 million
0.13
873
12.9.1 Second Language Speakers
12.9.2 Native Name
isiZulu
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
12.9.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Not Available
12.9.4 French Name
12.9.5 German Name
12.10 Pronunciation
Not Available
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
12.11 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Not Available
13 History
13.1 Origin
13.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
13.2.1 Subgroup
13.2.2 Branch
13.3 Language Forms
13.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Vedic Sanskrit
13.3.2 Standard Forms
13.3.3 Language Position
13.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
13.4 Scope
14 Code
14.1 ISO 639 1
14.2 ISO 639 2
14.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
14.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
14.3 ISO 639 3
14.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
14.5 Glottocode
14.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
14.7 Types of Language
14.7.1 Language Type
14.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
14.7.3 Language Morphological Typology