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Countries

Countries

Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

France, Spain
South Africa

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Pan South African Language Board

Interesting Facts

  • The Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  • 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

Spanish
Xhosa Language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2757
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

57
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2150
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kaixo
Sawubona

Thank You

Eskerrik asko
Ngiyabonga

How Are You?

Zer moduz?
unjani

Good Night

Gabon
okuhle ebusuku

Good Evening

Arratsalde on
okuhle kusihlwa

Good Afternoon

Arratsalde on
okuhle ntambama

Good Morning

Egun on
okuhle ekuseni

Please

Mesedez
Ngiyacela

Sorry

Barkatu
Ngiyaxolisa

Bye

Agur
bye

I Love You

Maite zaitut
Ngiyakuthanda wena

Excuse Me

Barkatu
Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Navarro-Lapurdian
Qwabe

Where They Speak

France
Gabon, South Africa

How Many People Speak

68,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Souletin
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu

Where They Speak

France, Soule, Spain
Georgia, South Africa

How Many People Speak

8,700.0028,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Biscayan
Ndebele

Where They Speak

Spain
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

750,000.0028,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

64
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.20 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.12 %0.16 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.20 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Euskara
isiZulu

Alternative Names

Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Isizulu, Zunda

French Name

basque
zoulou

German Name

Baskisch
Zulu-Sprache

Pronunciation

[bɑːsk]
[zuːlu]

Ethnicity

Basque people
Zulu people

History

Origin

c. 1000
19

Language Family

Vasconic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

-
Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Beatu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
urban Zulu

Standard Forms

Basque
Deep Zulu

Language Position

3087
1 120
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Signed Forms

Basque Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language

Scope

-
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

eu
zu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

eus
zul

ISO 639 2/B

baq
zul

ISO 639 3

eus
zul

ISO 639 6

eus
zul

Glottocode

basq1248
zulu1248

Linguasphere

40-AAA-a
99-AUT-fg

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
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Basque and Zulu Alphabets

Basque and Zulu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Basque and Zulu. In Basque Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters. To learn Basque and Zulu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Basque and Zulu languages. The Basque phonology consist Basque vowels and Basque consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Basque greetings vs Zulu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Basque and Zulu are Most Spoken Languages.

All Basque 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 Basque and Zulu dialects. Various dialects of Basque and Zulu language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Basque are spoken in different Basque Speaking Countries whereas Zulu Dialects are spoken in different Zulu speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Basque vs Zulu Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Basque dialects include: Navarro-Lapurdian, Souletin. Zulu dialects include: Qwabe , central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Basque and Zulu Speaking population

Basque and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Basque and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Basque and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 % 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 Basque and Zulu on Basque vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Basque and Zulu Language Codes

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