Countries
South Africa
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Xhosa Language
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
günaydın
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
bye
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
isiZulu
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
zoulou
  
turc
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Turkish
  
Origin
19
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Zulu and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Zulu and Turkish language. Zulu word for "Hello" is Sawubona or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Zulu Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Zulu vs Turkish Difficulty
The Zulu vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Zulu Alphabets and Turkish 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 Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Zulu and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Zulu is 44 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.