Countries
South Africa
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Indonesia
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Malay language
Derived From
-
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5726
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5019
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
37
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
Halo
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Terima kasih
How Are You?
unjani
Apa kabar?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Selamat Pagi
Please
Ngiyacela
mohon Untuk
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
maaf
Bye
bye
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Permisi
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Sundanese
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Balinese
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.003,300,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
446
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
zoulou
indonésien
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Indonesians
Origin
19
7th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indonesian
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Indonesian
Language Position
8756
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
ind
ISO 639 2/B
zul
ind
ISO 639 3
zul
ind
ISO 639 6
zul
ind
Glottocode
zulu1248
indo1316
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative