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Countries

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

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
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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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Greetings

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

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

314
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.16 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million12.00 million
0 873
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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

History

Origin

1185
19

Language Family

Japonic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

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Benue-Congo

Branch

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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

Code

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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Japanese and Zulu Alphabets

Japanese and Zulu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Zulu. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters. To learn Japanese and Zulu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Zulu languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Zulu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Zulu are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Zulu Speaking population

Japanese and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Zulu on Japanese vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Zulu Language Codes

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