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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

133
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa

Regulated By

Pan South African Language Board
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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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Xhosa Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5726
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

75
0 32
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How Many Consonants

5021
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

37
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sawubona
Hello

Thank You

Ngiyabonga
Thank you

How Are You?

unjani
How are you?

Good Night

okuhle ebusuku
Good Night

Good Evening

okuhle kusihlwa
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

okuhle ntambama
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

okuhle ekuseni
Good Morning

Please

Ngiyacela
Please

Sorry

Ngiyaxolisa
Sorry

Bye

bye
Bye

I Love You

Ngiyakuthanda wena
I love you

Excuse Me

Uxolo
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qwabe
American English

Where They Speak

Gabon, South Africa
United States of America

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Africa
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ndebele
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

4188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.16 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

isiZulu
English

Alternative Names

Isizulu, Zunda
English

French Name

zoulou
anglais

German Name

Zulu-Sprache
Englisch

Pronunciation

[zuːlu]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Zulu people
English people

History

Origin

19
5th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
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Branch

Beatu
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Language Forms

Early Forms

urban Zulu
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Deep Zulu
Standard English

Language Position

873
1 120
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Signed Forms

Zulu Sign Language
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

zu
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zul
eng

ISO 639 2/B

zul
eng

ISO 639 3

zul
eng

ISO 639 6

zul
engs

Glottocode

zulu1248
stan1293

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fg
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Zulu and English Alphabets

Zulu and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Zulu and English. In Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Zulu and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Zulu and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Zulu and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Zulu and English Speaking population

Zulu and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and English languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Zulu vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and English Language Codes

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