Countries
Meghalaya
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, India
South Africa
Second Language
-
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
- 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
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Xhosa Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2357
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1450
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kumno
Sawubona
Thank You
Khublei
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
unjani
Good Night
thia sukh
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
babha janmiet
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
khublei
okuhle ekuseni
Please
Sngewbha
Ngiyacela
Sorry
Map
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
khublei
bye
I Love You
ieit ieit
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
map a nga
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Qwabe
Where They Speak
-
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Nonglung
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
-
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Ndebele
Where They Speak
-
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Ka Ktien
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
khasi
zoulou
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Zulu people
Origin
1200 AD
19
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Khasi
Deep Zulu
Language Position
4087
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
zul
ISO 639 2/B
kha
zul
ISO 639 3
kha
zul
ISO 639 6
kha
zul
Glottocode
khas1269
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-