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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
India
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
11
Bhojpuri
0 46
2.7 National Language
South Africa
India
2.9 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.11 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
2.13 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.15 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Not Available
2.16 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.
3.3 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Old German Language
3.4 Derived From
Not Available
Prakrit Language
4 Alphabets
4.1 Alphabets in
4.2 Alphabets
5752
Irish
18 247
4.5 Phonology
4.5.1 How Many Vowels
716
Hebrew
0 32
4.5.3 How Many Consonants
5036
German
9 60
4.9 Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
4.10 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
4.11 Hard to Learn
4.11.1 Language Levels
33
Bengali
2 12
4.14.3 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks20 weeks
Cebuano
3 88
7 Greetings
7.1 Hello
Sawubona
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
7.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
7.3 How Are You?
unjani
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
7.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
7.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
शुभः सायंकालः
7.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
शुभ दुपार
7.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
7.8 Please
Ngiyacela
कृपया (kripayā)
7.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
7.10 Bye
bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
7.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
7.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
9 Dialects
9.1 Dialect 1
Qwabe
Not present
9.2.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Not Available
9.3.1 How Many People Speak
NANA
Macedonian
1.5 960000000
10.3 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Not present
10.3.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Not Available
10.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
Dzongkha
700 80000000
10.6 Dialect 3
Ndebele
Not present
10.6.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Not Available
10.6.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
Romanian
1400 96000000
10.9 Total No. Of Dialects
40
Persian
0 188
12 How Many People Speak
12.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million14.10 million
Abkhaz
0.13 1200
13.2 Speaking Population
0.16 %NA
Xhosa
0.11 89
13.4 Native Speakers
12.00 million14.10 million
Abkhaz
0.13 873
1.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 millionNA
Finnish
0.01 400
3.2.1 Native Name
isiZulu
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
3.2.2 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Not Available
3.2.3 French Name
zoulou
sanskrit
3.2.4 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Sanskrit
3.3 Pronunciation
Not Available
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
3.4 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Not Available
4 History
4.1 Origin
19
2000 B.C.
4.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
4.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
4.2.2 Branch
Beatu
Indic
4.3 Language Forms
4.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Vedic Sanskrit
4.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Sanskrit
4.3.3 Language Position
87NA
Chinese
1 120
6.3.2 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zu
sa
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zul
san
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
zul
san
7.3 ISO 639 3
zul
san
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
zulu1248
sans1269
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Ancient
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic