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Countries

Countries

South Africa
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
South Africa

Second Language

Namibia, South Africa
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Pan South African Language Board

Interesting Facts

  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  • 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

Dutch Language
Xhosa Language

Derived From

Dutch Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3257
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

157
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1750
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Sawubona

Thank You

Dankie
Ngiyabonga

How Are You?

Hoe gaan dit
unjani

Good Night

goeie nag
okuhle ebusuku

Good Evening

Goeienaand
okuhle kusihlwa

Good Afternoon

Goeie middag
okuhle ntambama

Good Morning

goeie more
okuhle ekuseni

Please

asseblief
Ngiyacela

Sorry

jammer
Ngiyaxolisa

Bye

Totsiens
bye

I Love You

Ek het jou lief
Ngiyakuthanda wena

Excuse Me

Verskoon my
Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kaapse Afrikaans
Qwabe

Where They Speak

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Gabon, South Africa

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oranjeriverafrikaans
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu

Where They Speak

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Georgia, South Africa

How Many People Speak

7,700,000.0028,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baster Afrikaans
Ndebele

Where They Speak

Namibia
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

7.0028,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

34
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

19.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %0.16 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.10 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.30 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afrikaans
isiZulu

Alternative Names

Cape Dutch
Isizulu, Zunda

French Name

afrikaans
zoulou

German Name

Afrikaans
Zulu-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[zuːlu]

Ethnicity

Afrikaners
Zulu people

History

Origin

17th Century
19

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Benue-Congo

Branch

Western
Beatu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
urban Zulu

Standard Forms

Standard Afrikaans
Deep Zulu

Language Position

2387
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Zulu Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

af
zu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

afr
zul

ISO 639 2/B

afr
zul

ISO 639 3

afr
zul

ISO 639 6

afrs
zul

Glottocode

afri1274
zulu1248

Linguasphere

52-ACB-ba
99-AUT-fg

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
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Afrikaans and Zulu Alphabets

Afrikaans and Zulu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Afrikaans and Zulu. In Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters. To learn Afrikaans and Zulu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Afrikaans and Zulu languages. The Afrikaans phonology consist Afrikaans vowels and Afrikaans consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Afrikaans greetings vs Zulu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Afrikaans and Zulu are Most Spoken Languages.

All Afrikaans and Zulu Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Afrikaans and Zulu dialects. Various dialects of Afrikaans and Zulu language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Afrikaans are spoken in different Afrikaans Speaking Countries whereas Zulu Dialects are spoken in different Zulu speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Afrikaans vs Zulu Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans, Oranjeriverafrikaans. Zulu dialects include: Qwabe , central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Afrikaans and Zulu Speaking population

Afrikaans and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Afrikaans and Zulu on Afrikaans vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Zulu Language Codes

Afrikaans and Zulu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Afrikaans and Zulu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.