Countries
South Africa
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Israel
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Israel
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Academy of the Hebrew Language
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 original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
-
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5722
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
70
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5022
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Hebrew
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, 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
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
unjani
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
Ngiyacela
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
bye
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Israel
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Israel
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
47
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million9.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
zoulou
hébreu
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
19
1000 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Semitic
Branch
Beatu
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
8723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
heb
ISO 639 2/B
zul
heb
ISO 639 3
zul
heb
ISO 639 6
zul
heb
Glottocode
zulu1248
hebr1246
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic