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Countries

Countries

Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

51
0 46
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National Language

Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
South Africa

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe, North America, South America
Africa

Minority Language

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
Pan South African Language Board

Interesting Facts

  • Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
  • There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  • 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

Norwegian and Swedish
Xhosa Language

Derived From

Old Norse Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2957
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

207
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2050
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

Mange tak
Ngiyabonga

How Are You?

Hvordan har du det?
unjani

Good Night

God nat
okuhle ebusuku

Good Evening

God aften
okuhle kusihlwa

Good Afternoon

God eftermiddag
okuhle ntambama

Good Morning

God morgen
okuhle ekuseni

Please

Please
Ngiyacela

Sorry

Undskyld!
Ngiyaxolisa

Bye

Farvel
bye

I Love You

Jeg elsker dig
Ngiyakuthanda wena

Excuse Me

Undskyld mig
Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Scanian
Qwabe

Where They Speak

Sweden
Gabon, South Africa

How Many People Speak

80,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Jutlandic
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu

Where They Speak

Denmark
Georgia, South Africa

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Bornholmsk
Ndebele

Where They Speak

Island of Bornholm
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

44
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.50 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.16 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.50 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

dansk
isiZulu

Alternative Names

Dansk, Rigsdansk
Isizulu, Zunda

French Name

danois
zoulou

German Name

Dänisch
Zulu-Sprache

Pronunciation

[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
[zuːlu]

Ethnicity

Danish people or Danes
Zulu people

History

Origin

c. 1100 AD
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Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

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Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Beatu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
urban Zulu

Standard Forms

Rigsdansk
Deep Zulu

Language Position

1887
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Danish
Zulu Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

da
zu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

dan
zul

ISO 639 2/B

dan
zul

ISO 639 3

dan
zul

ISO 639 6

dan
zul

Glottocode

dani1284
zulu1248

Linguasphere

5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
99-AUT-fg

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
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Danish and Zulu Alphabets

Danish and Zulu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Danish and Zulu. In Danish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters. To learn Danish and Zulu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Danish and Zulu languages. The Danish phonology consist Danish vowels and Danish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Danish greetings vs Zulu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Danish and Zulu are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Danish and Zulu Speaking population

Danish and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Danish and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Danish and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Danish language is 0.07 % 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 Danish and Zulu on Danish vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Danish and Zulu Language Codes

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