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Zulu
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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Japan

Second Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau

Regulated By

Pan South African Language Board
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Xhosa Language
Korean Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5799
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

75
0 32
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How Many Consonants

5014
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sawubona
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Ngiyabonga
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

unjani
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

okuhle ebusuku
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

okuhle kusihlwa
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

okuhle ntambama
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

okuhle ekuseni
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

Ngiyacela
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

Ngiyaxolisa
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Ngiyakuthanda wena
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Uxolo
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qwabe
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Gabon, South Africa
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Hakata

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Africa
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ndebele
Kansai

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
kansai

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

431
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.16 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

isiZulu
日本語

Alternative Names

Isizulu, Zunda
Nihongo

French Name

zoulou
japonais

German Name

Zulu-Sprache
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[zuːlu]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Zulu people
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

19
1185

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
-

Branch

Beatu
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

urban Zulu
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Deep Zulu
Japanese

Language Position

878
1 120
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Signed Forms

Zulu Sign Language
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

zu
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zul
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

zul
jpn

ISO 639 3

zul
jpn

ISO 639 6

zul
jpn

Glottocode

zulu1248
nucl1643

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fg
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Zulu and Japanese Alphabets

Zulu and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Zulu and Japanese. In Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Zulu and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Zulu and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Zulu and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Zulu and Japanese Speaking population

Zulu and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Zulu vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and Japanese Language Codes

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