Countries
South Africa
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
111
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Turkey
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5729
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5021
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Sawubona
Merhaba
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
unjani
Nasılsın?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Tünaydın
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
günaydın
Please
Ngiyacela
lütfen
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
üzgünüm
Bye
bye
Hoşçakal
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
49
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
zoulou
turc
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Turkish
Origin
19
c. 1350
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Turkic
Branch
Beatu
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
8719
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
tur
ISO 639 2/B
zul
tur
ISO 639 3
zul
tur
ISO 639 6
zul
tur
Glottocode
zulu1248
nucl1301
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic