Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
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
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5257
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
167
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3650
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Sawubona
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
unjani
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
Ngiyacela
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
bye
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Not present
Qwabe
Where They Speak
-
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
140,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
-
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
140,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Ndebele
Where They Speak
-
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
140,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
04
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.10 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
sanskrit
zoulou
German Name
Sanskrit
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Zulu people
Origin
2000 B.C.
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Deep Zulu
Language Position
2387
1
120
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Signed Forms
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Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
zul
ISO 639 2/B
san
zul
ISO 639 3
san
zul
ISO 639 6
san
zul
Glottocode
sans1269
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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