Countries
South Africa
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5731
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5026
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
unjani
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Ngiyacela
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
жал (žal)
Bye
bye
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Debar
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
428
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.16 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
zoulou
macédonien
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Macedonians
Origin
19
2200 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Branch
Beatu
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Macedonian
Language Position
8745
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
zul
mac
ISO 639 3
zul
mkd
ISO 639 6
zul
mkd
Glottocode
zulu1248
mace1250
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic