About Zulu Language | Zulu | Alphabets in Zulu

Countries

South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

South Africa

Second Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe

Speaking Continents

Africa

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Pan South African Language Board

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.

Similar To

Xhosa Language

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 34 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 35 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Sawubona

Thank You

Ngiyabonga

How Are You?

unjani

Good Night

okuhle ebusuku

Good Evening

okuhle kusihlwa

Good Afternoon

okuhle ntambama

Good Morning

okuhle ekuseni

Please

Ngiyacela

Sorry

Ngiyaxolisa

Bye

bye

I Love You

Ngiyakuthanda wena

Excuse Me

Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qwabe

Where They Speak

Gabon, South Africa

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00

Rank: 24 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Africa

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00

Rank: 22 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Ndebele

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00

Rank: 20 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million

Rank: 36 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.16 %

Rank: 51 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

12.00 million

Rank: 44 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million

Rank: 33 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

isiZulu

Alternative Names

Isizulu, Zunda

French Name

zoulou

German Name

Zulu-Sprache

Pronunciation

[zuːlu]

Ethnicity

Zulu people

History

Origin

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo

Branch

Beatu

Language Forms

Early Forms

urban Zulu

Standard Forms

Deep Zulu

Language Position

Rank: 68 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Zulu Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zul

ISO 639 2/B

zul

ISO 639 3

zul

ISO 639 6

zul

Glottocode

zulu1248

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fg

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Zulu

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Zulu Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Zulu Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Zulu. Zulu phonology gives Zulu vowels and Zulu consonants. There are 7 vowels and 50 consonants in Zulu language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Zulu is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Zulu language is given in detail in this section.

All Zulu countries

Want to explore all Zulu countries? About Zulu language serves you with all Zulu Speaking Countries. Countries that use Zulu as official language are called as Zulu countries.

Countries that use Zulu as their National Language are: South Africa.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Zulu as second language are: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Zulu greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Zulu Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Zulu language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Zulu language.Learn Zulu greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Sawubona
Thank you: Ngiyabonga
Good Morning: okuhle ekuseni
Good Evening: okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon: okuhle ntambama

All Zulu Language Codes

Get to know all Zulu language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Zulu Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.