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Zulu
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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

Second Language

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

Regulated By

Pan South African Language Board
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language

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.
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.

Similar To

Xhosa Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5730
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

75
0 32
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How Many Consonants

5025
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sawubona
Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

Ngiyabonga
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

How Are You?

unjani
Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

okuhle ebusuku
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

Good Evening

okuhle kusihlwa
Добро вече (Dobro veče)

Good Afternoon

okuhle ntambama
Добар дан (Dobar dan)

Good Morning

okuhle ekuseni
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

Please

Ngiyacela
Молим (Molim)

Sorry

Ngiyaxolisa
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

Bye

bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)

I Love You

Ngiyakuthanda wena
Волим те (Volim te)

Excuse Me

Uxolo
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qwabe
Prizren-Timok

Where They Speak

Gabon, South Africa
Southeastern Serbia

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Africa
Serbia

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ndebele
Torlakian

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

43
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million8.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.16 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

isiZulu
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

Alternative Names

Isizulu, Zunda
Montenegrin

French Name

zoulou
serbe

German Name

Zulu-Sprache
Serbisch

Pronunciation

[zuːlu]
[sr̩̂pskiː]

Ethnicity

Zulu people
Serbs

History

Origin

19
11th Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
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Branch

Beatu
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

urban Zulu
No early forms

Standard Forms

Deep Zulu
Standard Serbian

Language Position

8744
1 120
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Signed Forms

Zulu Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

zu
sr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zul
srp

ISO 639 2/B

zul
srp

ISO 639 3

zul
srp

ISO 639 6

zul
srp

Glottocode

zulu1248
serb1264

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fg
53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Zulu and Serbian Alphabets

Zulu and Serbian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Zulu and Serbian. In Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters while in Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Zulu and Serbian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Zulu and Serbian languages. The Zulu phonology consist Zulu vowels and Zulu consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Zulu greetings vs Serbian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Zulu and Serbian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Zulu and Serbian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Zulu and Serbian dialects. Various dialects of Zulu and Serbian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Zulu are spoken in different Zulu Speaking Countries whereas Serbian Dialects are spoken in different Serbian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Zulu vs Serbian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Zulu dialects include: Qwabe, central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok , Smederevo–Vršac. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Zulu and Serbian Speaking population

Zulu and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Zulu and Serbian on Zulu vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and Serbian Language Codes

Zulu and Serbian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Zulu and Serbian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.