Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
South Africa
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
Xhosa Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Thank You
شكرا
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
unjani
Good Night
تصبح على خير
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
مساء الخير
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
صباح الخير
okuhle ekuseni
I Love You
أحبك
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Gabon, South Africa
Dialect 2
Sudanese
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Sudan
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Isizulu, Zunda
German Name
Arabisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
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Ethnicity
Arabs
Zulu people
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Benue-Congo
Branch
North Arabic
Beatu
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Deep Zulu
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
arab1395
zulu1248
Linguasphere
12-AAC
99-AUT-fg
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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Arabic and Zulu 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 Arabic and Zulu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Zulu language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Zulu word for "Thank You" is Ngiyabonga. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Zulu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Zulu Difficulty
The Arabic vs Zulu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Zulu 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 Arabic and Zulu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Zulu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Zulu time required is 44 weeks.