Countries
South Africa
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
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, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5744
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
711
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5033
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
unjani
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
Ngiyacela
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Marwari
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
421
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
zoulou
hindi
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Hindi
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Hindustani people
Origin
19
7th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Beatu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Hindi
Language Position
875
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
hin
ISO 639 2/B
zul
hin
ISO 639 3
zul
hin
ISO 639 6
zul
hins
Glottocode
zulu1248
hind1269
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic