1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Finland
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
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.
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Norwegian and Danish Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Old Norse Language
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
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
god kväll
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
god eftermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
god morgon
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
jag älskar dig
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Gabon
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA78,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Dialects
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Georgia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA78,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA96,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million15.00 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
16.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Ruotsi, Svenska
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Swedes, Finland Swedes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Beatu
Northern (Scandinavian)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Swedish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
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
99-AUT-fg
52-AAA-ck to -cw
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
Not Available