Countries
South Africa
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Middle East
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5029
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
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Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
Silaw
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Sipas
How Are You?
unjani
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Şev xweş
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Bayanit bash
Please
Ngiyacela
Bê zehmet
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Bibûre
Bye
bye
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.16 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
zoulou
kurde
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Kurds
Origin
19
16th century CE
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Beatu
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Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Kurdish
Language Position
8714
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zu
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
kur
ISO 639 2/B
zul
kur
ISO 639 3
zul
kur
ISO 639 6
zul
kur
Glottocode
zulu1248
kurd1259
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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