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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
France, Spain

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
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Pan South African Language Board
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee

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 Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.

Similar To

Xhosa Language
Spanish

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5727
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

75
0 32
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How Many Consonants

5021
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sawubona
Kaixo

Thank You

Ngiyabonga
Eskerrik asko

How Are You?

unjani
Zer moduz?

Good Night

okuhle ebusuku
Gabon

Good Evening

okuhle kusihlwa
Arratsalde on

Good Afternoon

okuhle ntambama
Arratsalde on

Good Morning

okuhle ekuseni
Egun on

Please

Ngiyacela
Mesedez

Sorry

Ngiyaxolisa
Barkatu

Bye

bye
Agur

I Love You

Ngiyakuthanda wena
Maite zaitut

Excuse Me

Uxolo
Barkatu

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qwabe
Navarro-Lapurdian

Where They Speak

Gabon, South Africa
France

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.0068,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Souletin

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Africa
France, Soule, Spain

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.008,700.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ndebele
Biscayan

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
Spain

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00750,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

46
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million7.20 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.16 %0.12 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million7.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million0.70 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

isiZulu
Euskara

Alternative Names

Isizulu, Zunda
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense

French Name

zoulou
basque

German Name

Zulu-Sprache
Baskisch

Pronunciation

[zuːlu]
[bɑːsk]

Ethnicity

Zulu people
Basque people

History

Origin

19
c. 1000

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Vasconic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
-

Branch

Beatu
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

urban Zulu
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian

Standard Forms

Deep Zulu
Basque

Language Position

8730
1 120
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Signed Forms

Zulu Sign Language
Basque Sign Language

Scope

Individual
-

Code

ISO 639 1

zu
eu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zul
eus

ISO 639 2/B

zul
baq

ISO 639 3

zul
eus

ISO 639 6

zul
eus

Glottocode

zulu1248
basq1248

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fg
40-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
-

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Agglutinative

Zulu and Basque Alphabets

Zulu and Basque Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Zulu and Basque. In Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters while in Basque Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn Zulu and Basque languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Zulu and Basque 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 Basque greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Zulu and Basque are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Zulu and Basque Speaking population

Zulu and Basque speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Basque languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Basque Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 %. 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 Basque on Zulu vs Basque where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and Basque Language Codes

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