Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3057
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2150
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Henda ho
Sawubona
Thank You
Adi Johar
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
unjani
Good Night
Boge Ninda
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
okuhle ekuseni
Please
দয়া করে
Ngiyacela
Sorry
দুঃখিত
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Hariau
bye
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Mahali
Qwabe
Where They Speak
India
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0028,000,000.00
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
6,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Ndebele
Where They Speak
-
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
santal
zoulou
German Name
Santali
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Zulu people
Origin
20th century
19
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Santali
Deep Zulu
Language Position
4187
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
zul
ISO 639 2/B
sat
zul
ISO 639 3
sat
zul
ISO 639 6
sat
zul
Glottocode
sant1410
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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