Countries
South Africa
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Norway
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5729
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
79
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5020
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
hallo
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
takk
How Are You?
unjani
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
god natt
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
god kveld
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
god morgen
Please
Ngiyacela
Vær så snill
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
unnskyld
Bye
bye
ha det
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Uxolo
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Sogn
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
419
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
Norsk
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Norsk
French Name
zoulou
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Norwegians
Origin
19
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Germanic
Branch
Beatu
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
8718
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zu
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
nor
ISO 639 2/B
zul
nor
ISO 639 3
zul
nor
ISO 639 6
zul
nor
Glottocode
zulu1248
norw1258
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional