Countries
Indonesia
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Xhosa Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2757
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2150
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Sawubona
Thank You
matur nuwun
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
piye kabare?
unjani
Good Night
wengi sing apik
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
okuhle ekuseni
Please
matur nuwun
Ngiyacela
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
bye
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
164
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
javanais
zoulou
German Name
Javanisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Zulu people
Origin
450 AD
19
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Javanese
Deep Zulu
Language Position
1187
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
zul
ISO 639 2/B
jav
zul
ISO 639 3
jav
zul
ISO 639 6
jav
zul
Glottocode
java1253
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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