Countries
Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Sweden
South Africa
Second Language
Finland
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
- 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
Norwegian and Danish Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Old Norse Language
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2957
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
97
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1850
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
hej
Sawubona
Thank You
tacka dig
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
hur mår du
unjani
Good Night
godnatt
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
god kväll
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
god morgon
okuhle ekuseni
Please
vänligen
Ngiyacela
Sorry
ledsen
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
hej då
bye
I Love You
jag älskar dig
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
Uxolo
Dialects
Dialect 1
Dialects
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Gabon
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Dialects
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Georgia
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Dialects
Ndebele
Where They Speak
France
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
794
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.16 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million12.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Svenska
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
suédois
zoulou
German Name
Schwedisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Zulu people
History
Origin
13th Century
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Swedish
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
Deep Zulu
Language Position
8987
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
sv
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swe
zul
ISO 639 2/B
swe
zul
ISO 639 3
swe
zul
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
swed1254
zulu1248
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available