Countries
South Africa
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5726
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
724
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5023
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
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
unjani
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Ngiyacela
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Wu
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Yue
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
410
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
zoulou
chinois
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Han
Origin
19
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
871
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
zho
ISO 639 2/B
zul
chi
ISO 639 3
zul
zho
ISO 639 6
zul
zho
Glottocode
zulu1248
sini1245
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating