Countries
South Africa
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
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
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5752
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
716
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Sawubona
Namaskar
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
unjani
kaso assa?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Ngiyacela
Chike
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Maf kor
Bye
bye
Adeus
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Uxolo
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Antruz
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Goa
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Not present
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Not present
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
-
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
zoulou
konkani
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Konkani
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Konkanis
Origin
19
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Kokani
Language Position
8723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zu
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
kok
ISO 639 2/B
zul
kok
ISO 639 3
zul
kok
ISO 639 6
zul
kok
Glottocode
zulu1248
goan1235
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-