Countries
South Africa
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5028
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
unjani
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Ngiyacela
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Kartli
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
420
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.16 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
zoulou
géorgien
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Georgians
Origin
19
5th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Southern
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Georgian
Language Position
87120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
zu
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
kat
ISO 639 2/B
zul
geo
ISO 639 3
zul
kat
ISO 639 6
zul
kat
Glottocode
zulu1248
nucl1302
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic