Countries
South Africa
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
China, Mongolia
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
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Turkish Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5735
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
713
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5020
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
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
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
unjani
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
Ngiyacela
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.16 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million5.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
zoulou
mongol
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Mongols
Origin
19
1224-1225
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Mongolian
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
8726
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zu
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
mon
ISO 639 2/B
zul
mon
ISO 639 3
zul
mon
ISO 639 6
zul
mon
Glottocode
zulu1248
mong1331
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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