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Countries

Countries

Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

31
0 46
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National Language

Malaysia
South Africa

Second Language

Indonesia
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

Minority Language

Thailand
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Pan South African Language Board

Interesting Facts

  • One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
  • Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  • 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

Indonesian Language
Xhosa Language

Derived From

Tamil Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2657
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

67
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2450
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hai
Sawubona

Thank You

terima kasih
Ngiyabonga

How Are You?

Apa khabar?
unjani

Good Night

Selamat Malam
okuhle ebusuku

Good Evening

Selamat Petang
okuhle kusihlwa

Good Afternoon

Selamat tengah hari
okuhle ntambama

Good Morning

Selamat pagi
okuhle ekuseni

Please

sila
Ngiyacela

Sorry

maaf
Ngiyaxolisa

Bye

Selamat tinggal
bye

I Love You

Saya sayang kamu
Ngiyakuthanda wena

Excuse Me

Maafkan saya
Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bengkulu
Qwabe

Where They Speak

Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Gabon, South Africa

How Many People Speak

1,600,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Pekal
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Georgia, South Africa

How Many People Speak

30,000.0028,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Musi
Ndebele

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

3,100,000.0028,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

244
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

175.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.16 %0.16 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

77.00 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

98.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Bahasa melayu
isiZulu

Alternative Names

Bahasa Malaysia
Isizulu, Zunda

French Name

malais
zoulou

German Name

Malaiisch
Zulu-Sprache

Pronunciation

[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[zuːlu]

Ethnicity

Malaysian people
Zulu people

History

Origin

c. 683 AD
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Language Family

Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

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Benue-Congo

Branch

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Beatu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
urban Zulu

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Malay
Deep Zulu

Language Position

5487
1 120
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Signed Forms

Malaysian Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ms
zu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

msa
zul

ISO 639 2/B

may
zul

ISO 639 3

zsm
zul

ISO 639 6

may
zul

Glottocode

stan1306
zulu1248

Linguasphere

No data available
99-AUT-fg

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
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Malaysian and Zulu Alphabets

Malaysian and Zulu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malaysian and Zulu. In Malaysian Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters. To learn Malaysian and Zulu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malaysian and Zulu languages. The Malaysian phonology consist Malaysian vowels and Malaysian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Malaysian greetings vs Zulu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malaysian and Zulu are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Malaysian and Zulu Speaking population

Malaysian and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malaysian and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Malaysian and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 % 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 Malaysian and Zulu on Malaysian vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malaysian and Zulu Language Codes

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