Cantonese and Zulu
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
South Africa
National Language
China, Guangdong
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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
Chinese Language
Xhosa Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Good Night
晚安
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
晚上好
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
下午好
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
早上好
okuhle ekuseni
I Love You
我爱你
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Qwabe
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Gabon, South Africa
Dialect 2
Xiguan
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Georgia, South Africa
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Zimbabwe
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
cantonais
zoulou
German Name
Kantonesisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Zulu people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Deep Zulu
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Zulu Sign Language
ISO 639 1
No data available
zu
ISO 639 3
No data available
zul
Glottocode
cant1236
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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All Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Zulu dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Zulu language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Zulu Dialects are spoken in different Zulu speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Zulu Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Zulu dialects include: Qwabe , central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Zulu Speaking population
Cantonese and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % 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 Cantonese and Zulu on Cantonese vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Zulu Language Codes
Cantonese and Zulu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Zulu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.