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Countries

Countries

South Africa
East Asia, European Union, South America

Total No. Of Countries

13
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
East Asia, European Union

Second Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe, South America

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Pan South African Language Board
Akademio de Esperanto

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.
  • The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
  • Esperanto is an artificial international language.

Similar To

Xhosa Language
Latin and Italian Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5732
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

75
0 32
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How Many Consonants

5027
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

32
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sawubona
Halo

Thank You

Ngiyabonga
Dankon

How Are You?

unjani
Kiel vi sanas?

Good Night

okuhle ebusuku
Bonan nokton

Good Evening

okuhle kusihlwa
Bonan vesperon

Good Afternoon

okuhle ntambama
Bonan posttagmezon

Good Morning

okuhle ekuseni
Bonan matenon

Please

Ngiyacela
Mi petas

Sorry

Ngiyaxolisa
Mi bedaŭras!

Bye

bye
Ĝis poste

I Love You

Ngiyakuthanda wena
Mi amas vin

Excuse Me

Uxolo
Pardonu!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qwabe
Not present

Where They Speak

Gabon, South Africa
Not present

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Not present

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Africa
Not present

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.001,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ndebele
Not present

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
Not present

How Many People Speak

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

40
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million2.20 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.16 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million0.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

isiZulu
Esperanto

Alternative Names

Isizulu, Zunda
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia

French Name

zoulou
espéranto

German Name

Zulu-Sprache
Esperanto

Pronunciation

[zuːlu]
[espeˈranto]

Ethnicity

Zulu people
Esperanto speakers

History

Origin

19
1887

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
Proto-Esperanto

Standard Forms

Deep Zulu
Esperanto

Language Position

8733
1 120
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Signed Forms

Zulu Sign Language
Signuno

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

zu
eo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zul
epo

ISO 639 2/B

zul
epo

ISO 639 3

zul
epo

ISO 639 6

zul
epo

Glottocode

zulu1248
espe1235

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fg
51-AAB-da

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Constructed

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

-
Agglutinative

Zulu and Esperanto Alphabets

Zulu and Esperanto Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Zulu and Esperanto. In Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters while in Esperanto Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Zulu and Esperanto languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Zulu and Esperanto 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 Esperanto greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Zulu and Esperanto are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Zulu and Esperanto Speaking population

Zulu and Esperanto speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Esperanto languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Esperanto Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Esperanto language is 0.03 %. 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 Esperanto on Zulu vs Esperanto where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and Esperanto Language Codes

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