Countries
South Africa
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5723
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5014
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
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
Kumno
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Khublei
How Are You?
unjani
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
thia sukh
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
khublei
Please
Ngiyacela
Sngewbha
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Map
Bye
bye
khublei
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
Uxolo
map a nga
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
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How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
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How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
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How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
45
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
zoulou
khasi
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Khasi people
Origin
19
1200 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
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Branch
Beatu
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Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Khasi
Language Position
8740
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
kha
ISO 639 2/B
zul
kha
ISO 639 3
zul
kha
ISO 639 6
zul
kha
Glottocode
zulu1248
khas1269
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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