Countries
South Africa
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Lithuania
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5732
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5020
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Sawubona
Sveiki
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Ačiū
How Are You?
unjani
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Labanakt
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Laba diena
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Labas rytas
Please
Ngiyacela
Prašom
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
atsiprašau
Bye
bye
Ate
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Curonian
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
410
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
zoulou
lituanien
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Lithuanians
Origin
19
c. 1503
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Beatu
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Lithuanian
Language Position
8744
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
lit
ISO 639 2/B
zul
lit
ISO 639 3
zul
lit
ISO 639 6
zul
lit
Glottocode
zulu1248
lith1251
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic