Countries
South Africa
Armenian Highland
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
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.
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Greek
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5738
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5032
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Armenian manuscript
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
312
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
Բարեւ (Barev)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
How Are You?
unjani
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Please
Ngiyacela
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
կներեք (knerek’)
Bye
bye
Ց'տեսություն
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Western Armenian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
-
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
42
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million6.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.22 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million6.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million7.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
French Name
zoulou
arménien
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Armenisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Armenians
Origin
19
late 5th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Language Position
8714
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Signed Armenian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
hy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
hye
ISO 639 2/B
zul
arm
ISO 639 3
zul
hye
ISO 639 6
zul
hye
Glottocode
zulu1248
arme1241
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
57-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic