Countries
South Africa
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
South Africa
  
India, Pakistan, Sindh
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
  
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 first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Gujarati
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Prakrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sindhi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
Assalam O Alaikum
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
Meharbani
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
Kehra haal aahin
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
tava kia aayo
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Sham Jo Salam
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
Assalam o Alaikum
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
Subho Bakhair
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
Mehrbani
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Moon khe afsos aahe
  
Bye
bye
  
Allah Wahi
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Maaf Kajo
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Siraiki
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Upper Sindh
  
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Vicholi
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Central Sindh
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Lari
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Lower Sindh
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
29.00 million
  
37
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
isiZulu
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Not Available
  
French Name
zoulou
  
sindhi
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Sindhi-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
19
  
711 A.D
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Sindhi
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
sd
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
snd
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
snd
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
snd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
sind1272
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Zulu and Sindhi Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Zulu and Sindhi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Zulu and Sindhi language. Zulu word for "Hello" is Sawubona or Sindhi word for "Thank You" is Meharbani. Find more of such common Zulu Greetings and Sindhi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Zulu vs Sindhi Difficulty
The Zulu vs Sindhi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Zulu Alphabets and Sindhi Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Zulu and Sindhi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Zulu and Sindhi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Zulu is 44 weeks while to learn Sindhi time required is Not Available.