Countries
South Africa
China
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
China
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
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Uzbek Language
Derived From
-
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5736
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
79
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5027
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
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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Hello
Sawubona
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
rakhmat
How Are You?
unjani
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
Ngiyacela
birdam
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
kachurung
Bye
bye
Khayr khosh
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Turpan
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
China
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Hotan
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
China
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
China
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
47
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
zoulou
ouïgour
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Uyghur
Origin
19
11
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Uyghur
Language Position
8798
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
zu
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
uig
ISO 639 2/B
zul
uig
ISO 639 3
zul
uig
ISO 639 6
zul
uig
Glottocode
zulu1248
uigh1240
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-