Countries
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5730
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5025
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
Zdravo
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Hvala
How Are You?
unjani
Kako si?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Laku noc
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Dobar dan
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Dobro jutro
Please
Ngiyacela
molim vas
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Oprostite
Bye
bye
Zbogom
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Volim te
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Croatia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Croatia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million3.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
zoulou
bosniaque
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Bosniaks
Origin
19
19th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Bosnian
Language Position
8724
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
bos
ISO 639 2/B
zul
bos
ISO 639 3
zul
bos
ISO 639 6
zul
boss
Glottocode
zulu1248
bosn1245
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
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-