Countries
India, Pakistan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
- 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
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4457
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
177
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2750
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Assalām ‘alaikum
Sawubona
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
unjani
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
سہا مسا
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
okuhle ekuseni
Please
مهربانی کر
Ngiyacela
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
bye
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
Qwabe
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Poguli
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,100,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rambani
Ndebele
Where They Speak
India
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.60 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.42 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
kashmiri
zoulou
German Name
Kaschmiri
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
Zulu people
Origin
12th 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
Kashmiri
Deep Zulu
Language Position
2387
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ks
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kas
zul
ISO 639 2/B
kas
zul
ISO 639 3
kas
zul
ISO 639 6
kas
zul
Glottocode
kash1277
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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