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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

17
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Germany

Second Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Pan South African Language Board
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

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

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5726
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

710
0 32
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How Many Consonants

509
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sawubona
hallo

Thank You

Ngiyabonga
Danke

How Are You?

unjani
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

okuhle ebusuku
gute Nacht

Good Evening

okuhle kusihlwa
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

okuhle ntambama
guten Tag

Good Morning

okuhle ekuseni
guten Morgen

Please

Ngiyacela
bitte

Sorry

Ngiyaxolisa
Verzeihung

Bye

bye
Tschüs

I Love You

Ngiyakuthanda wena
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Uxolo
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qwabe
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Gabon, South Africa
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Africa
Germany

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ndebele
Texas German

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
Texas

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

428
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.16 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

isiZulu
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Isizulu, Zunda
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

zoulou
allemand

German Name

Zulu-Sprache
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[zuːlu]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Zulu people
Germans

History

Origin

19
6th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Germanic

Branch

Beatu
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

urban Zulu
No early forms

Standard Forms

Deep Zulu
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

879
1 120
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Signed Forms

Zulu Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

zu
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zul
deu

ISO 639 2/B

zul
ger

ISO 639 3

zul
deu

ISO 639 6

zul
deus

Glottocode

zulu1248
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fg
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Zulu and German Alphabets

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

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

Zulu and German Speaking population

Zulu and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and German languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Zulu vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and German Language Codes

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