Countries
Japan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Japan
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Africa
Minority Language
Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9957
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1450
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Sawubona
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
unjani
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Ngiyacela
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
bye
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Ndebele
Where They Speak
kansai
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
314
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
japonais
zoulou
German Name
Japanisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Zulu people
Origin
1185
19
Language Family
Japonic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Japanese
Deep Zulu
Language Position
887
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
zul
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
zul
ISO 639 3
jpn
zul
ISO 639 6
jpn
zul
Glottocode
nucl1643
zulu1248
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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