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Countries

Countries

Wales
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Wales
South Africa

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Argentina, United Kingdom
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Welsh Language Commissioner
Pan South African Language Board

Interesting Facts

  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  • 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

English Language
Xhosa Language

Derived From

British Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2957
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

77
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2150
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

43
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Helô
Sawubona

Thank You

Diolch
Ngiyabonga

How Are You?

Sut ydych chi?
unjani

Good Night

Nos da
okuhle ebusuku

Good Evening

Noswaith dda
okuhle kusihlwa

Good Afternoon

P'nawn da
okuhle ntambama

Good Morning

Bore da
okuhle ekuseni

Please

os gwelwch yn dda
Ngiyacela

Sorry

Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Ngiyaxolisa

Bye

Hwyl
bye

I Love You

Dw i'n dy garu di
Ngiyakuthanda wena

Excuse Me

Esgusodwch fi
Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Patagonian Welsh
Qwabe

Where They Speak

Argentina
Gabon, South Africa

How Many People Speak

38,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Y Wyndodeg
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu

Where They Speak

Gwynedd
Georgia, South Africa

How Many People Speak

700,000.0028,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Y Bowyseg
Ndebele

Where They Speak

Powys
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

700,000.0028,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

84
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.40 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %0.16 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.40 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
isiZulu

Alternative Names

Cymraeg
Isizulu, Zunda

French Name

gallois
zoulou

German Name

Kymrisch
Zulu-Sprache

Pronunciation

[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[zuːlu]

Ethnicity

Welsh people
Zulu people

History

Origin

9th Century
19

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Celtic
Benue-Congo

Branch

Brythonic
Beatu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
urban Zulu

Standard Forms

Welsh
Deep Zulu

Language Position

3187
1 120
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Signed Forms

Welsh Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

cy
zu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

cym
zul

ISO 639 2/B

wel
zul

ISO 639 3

cym
zul

ISO 639 6

cym
zul

Glottocode

wels1247
zulu1248

Linguasphere

50-ABA
99-AUT-fg

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
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Welsh and Zulu Alphabets

Welsh and Zulu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Welsh and Zulu. In Welsh Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters. To learn Welsh and Zulu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Welsh and Zulu languages. The Welsh phonology consist Welsh vowels and Welsh consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Welsh greetings vs Zulu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Welsh and Zulu are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Welsh and Zulu Speaking population

Welsh and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Welsh and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Welsh and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Welsh language is 0.24 % 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 Welsh and Zulu on Welsh vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Welsh and Zulu Language Codes

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