Countries
Estonia, European Union
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- 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
Finnish
Xhosa Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2757
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
97
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1850
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Sawubona
Thank You
aitäh
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
unjani
Good Night
Head ööd
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
okuhle ekuseni
Please
Palun
Ngiyacela
Sorry
Vabandust
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Head aega
bye
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Idamurre
Ndebele
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
eesti keel
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
estonien
zoulou
German Name
Estnisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Zulu people
Origin
13th century
19
Language Family
Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Benue-Congo
Branch
Finnic
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Estonian
Deep Zulu
Language Position
2287
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
zul
ISO 639 2/B
est
zul
ISO 639 3
est
zul
ISO 639 6
est
zul
Glottocode
esto1258
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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