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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

19
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Austria

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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By

Pan South African Language Board
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

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.
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

Similar To

Xhosa Language
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

-
Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5730
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

75
0 32
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How Many Consonants

5025
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sawubona
bok

Thank You

Ngiyabonga
hvala

How Are You?

unjani
kako si

Good Night

okuhle ebusuku
laku noć

Good Evening

okuhle kusihlwa
dobra večer

Good Afternoon

okuhle ntambama
dobar dan

Good Morning

okuhle ekuseni
dobro jutro

Please

Ngiyacela
molim

Sorry

Ngiyaxolisa
Oprostite

Bye

bye
Doviđenja

I Love You

Ngiyakuthanda wena
Volim te

Excuse Me

Uxolo
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qwabe
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Gabon, South Africa
Croatia

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Africa
Croatia

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ndebele
Shtokavian

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

479
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million89.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.16 %89.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million5.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million1.25 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

isiZulu
hrvatski

Alternative Names

Isizulu, Zunda
Hrvatski

French Name

zoulou
croate

German Name

Zulu-Sprache
Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[zuːlu]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Zulu people
Croats

History

Origin

19
9th 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

8723
1 120
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Signed Forms

Zulu Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

zu
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zul
hrv

ISO 639 2/B

zul
hrv

ISO 639 3

zul
hrv

ISO 639 6

zul
hrv

Glottocode

zulu1248
croa1245

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

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Zulu and Croatian Alphabets

Zulu and Croatian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Zulu and Croatian. In Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters while in Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Zulu and Croatian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Zulu and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Zulu and Croatian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Zulu and Croatian Speaking population

Zulu and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Croatian on Zulu vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and Croatian Language Codes

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