Countries
South Africa
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Bhutan
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
India
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Dzongkha Development Commission
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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5795
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5030
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
unjani
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Ngiyacela
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Tsip maza
Bye
bye
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Laya
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Lunana
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Adap
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
zoulou
dzongkha
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Ngalop people
Origin
19
17th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Beatu
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Dzongkha
Language Position
8731
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
zul
dzo
ISO 639 3
zul
dzo
ISO 639 6
zul
dzo
Glottocode
zulu1248
nucl1307
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-