Countries
South Africa
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
India
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Bengali Language
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5747
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5031
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
unjani
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
Ngiyacela
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
bye
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Kharwa
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Surati
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
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How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.16 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million50.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
zoulou
goudjrati
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Gujaratis
Origin
19
15
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Beatu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
8723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
guj
ISO 639 2/B
zul
guj
ISO 639 3
zul
guj
ISO 639 6
zul
guj
Glottocode
zulu1248
guja1252
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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