Countries
South Africa
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5721
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5019
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
Bwakeye
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Urakoze
How Are You?
unjani
Urakomeye?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Mwaramutse
Please
Ngiyacela
Ndagusavye
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Ndasubiza
Bye
bye
N’agasaga
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Ha
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Shubi
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
zoulou
rundi
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
19
1500
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo 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
Kirundi
Language Position
8786
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
zu
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
run
ISO 639 2/B
zul
run
ISO 639 3
zul
run
ISO 639 6
zul
run
Glottocode
zulu1248
rund1242
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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