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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Old German Language
Derived From
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Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5752
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
716
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
unjani
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
Ngiyacela
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Not present
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Not present
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Not present
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
-
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
40
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.16 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
zoulou
sanskrit
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
19
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Beatu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Sanskrit
Language Position
8723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
san
ISO 639 2/B
zul
san
ISO 639 3
zul
san
ISO 639 6
zul
san
Glottocode
zulu1248
sans1269
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic