Countries
South Africa
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5728
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5020
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
您好
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
谢谢
How Are You?
unjani
你好吗？
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
晚安
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
晚上好
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
下午好
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
早上好
Please
Ngiyacela
请
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
遗憾
Bye
bye
再见
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
我爱你
Excuse Me
Uxolo
原谅我
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
zoulou
cantonais
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Han Chinese
Origin
19
17th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
871
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
zu
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
yue
ISO 639 2/B
zul
yue
ISO 639 3
zul
No data available
ISO 639 6
zul
yue
Glottocode
zulu1248
cant1236
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-