Countries
South Africa
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Somalia
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Yemen
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5726
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5021
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
Hello
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
unjani
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Subax wanaagsan
Please
Ngiyacela
Fadlan
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
sorry
Bye
bye
caraysiiyo
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Uxolo
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
zoulou
somali
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Somali
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Somalis
Origin
19
19th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Cushitic
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Somali
Language Position
8783
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
som
ISO 639 2/B
zul
som
ISO 639 3
zul
som
ISO 639 6
zul
som
Glottocode
zulu1248
soma1255
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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