Countries
South Africa
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
North Korea, South Korea
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
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
The National Institute of the Korean Language
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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Chinese and Japanese languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5740
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
721
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5019
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Hangul
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
How Are You?
unjani
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Please
Ngiyacela
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Bye
bye
안녕 (annyeong)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Jeju
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
South Korea
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0010,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Gyeongsang
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
South Korea
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Hamgyŏng
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
China, North Korea
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0077,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
412
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million77.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million77.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
한국어 (조선말)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
French Name
zoulou
coréen
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Koreanisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[hangukmal]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Koreans
Origin
19
Before 1st century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Koreanic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Language Position
8712
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Korean Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
ko
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
kor
ISO 639 2/B
zul
kor
ISO 639 3
zul
Kor
ISO 639 6
zul
kor
Glottocode
zulu1248
kore1280
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
45-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative