Countries
South Africa
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
India
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
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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.
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5742
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
711
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5031
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
unjani
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
Ngiyacela
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Baleswari
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
India
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Ganjami
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
India
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Kosli
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
India
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00520,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million33.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.16 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
zoulou
oriya
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Odias
Origin
19
3 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Beatu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Odia
Language Position
8732
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zu
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
ori
ISO 639 2/B
zul
ori
ISO 639 3
zul
ori
ISO 639 6
zul
ori
Glottocode
zulu1248
macr1269
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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