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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Total No. Of Countries

123
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Pan South African Language Board
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council

Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.

Similar To

Xhosa Language
Amharic and Hebrew

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5728
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

78
0 32
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How Many Consonants

5028
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sawubona
مرحبا

Thank You

Ngiyabonga
شكرا

How Are You?

unjani
كيف حالك؟

Good Night

okuhle ebusuku
تصبح على خير

Good Evening

okuhle kusihlwa
مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

okuhle ntambama
مساء الخير

Good Morning

okuhle ekuseni
صباح الخير

Please

Ngiyacela
من فضلك

Sorry

Ngiyaxolisa
آسف

Bye

bye
وداعا

I Love You

Ngiyakuthanda wena
أحبك

Excuse Me

Uxolo
اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qwabe
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

Gabon, South Africa
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Sudanese

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Africa
Sudan

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ndebele
Levantine

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

426
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.16 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

isiZulu
(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

Isizulu, Zunda
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

French Name

zoulou
arabe

German Name

Zulu-Sprache
Arabisch

Pronunciation

[zuːlu]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Zulu people
Arabs

History

Origin

19
512 CE

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Semitic

Branch

Beatu
North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

urban Zulu
No early forms

Standard Forms

Deep Zulu
Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

8725
1 120
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Signed Forms

Zulu Sign Language
Signed Arabic

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

zu
ar

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zul
ara

ISO 639 2/B

zul
ara

ISO 639 3

zul
ara

ISO 639 6

zul
ara

Glottocode

zulu1248
arab1395

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fg
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Zulu and Arabic Alphabets

Zulu and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Zulu and Arabic. In Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Zulu and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Zulu and Arabic languages. The Zulu phonology consist Zulu vowels and Zulu consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Zulu greetings vs Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Zulu and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Zulu and Arabic Speaking population

Zulu and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. 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 Zulu and Arabic on Zulu vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and Arabic Language Codes

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