Countries
Fiji, India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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
Urdu
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4457
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
117
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3350
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Sawubona
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
unjani
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Ngiyacela
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
bye
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Marwari
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
214
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
hindi
zoulou
German Name
Hindi
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Zulu people
Origin
7th Century
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Deep Zulu
Language Position
587
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
zul
ISO 639 2/B
hin
zul
ISO 639 3
hin
zul
ISO 639 6
hins
zul
Glottocode
hind1269
zulu1248
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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