Countries
South Africa
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Nepal
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5748
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
unjani
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Good afternoon
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Ngiyacela
कृपया
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Doteli
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Nepal
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Nepal
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
412
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
zoulou
népalais
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
19
19 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Beatu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Nepali
Language Position
8759
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zu
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
nep
ISO 639 2/B
zul
nep
ISO 639 3
zul
npi
ISO 639 6
zul
nep
Glottocode
zulu1248
nepa1254
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative