1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
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
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
Како си? (Kako si?)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Волим те (Volim te)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извините (Izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Southeastern Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Smederevo–Vršac
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Serbia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million8.70 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million8.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiZulu
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Montenegrin
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[sr̩̂pskiː]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Serbian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
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6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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