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Countries

Countries

South Africa
Wales

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

South Africa
Wales

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
Argentina, United Kingdom

Regulated By

Pan South African Language Board
Welsh Language Commissioner

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.
  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.

Similar To

Xhosa Language
English Language

Derived From

-
British Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5729
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

77
0 32
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How Many Consonants

5021
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sawubona
Helô

Thank You

Ngiyabonga
Diolch

How Are You?

unjani
Sut ydych chi?

Good Night

okuhle ebusuku
Nos da

Good Evening

okuhle kusihlwa
Noswaith dda

Good Afternoon

okuhle ntambama
P'nawn da

Good Morning

okuhle ekuseni
Bore da

Please

Ngiyacela
os gwelwch yn dda

Sorry

Ngiyaxolisa
Mae'n ddrwg gennym

Bye

bye
Hwyl

I Love You

Ngiyakuthanda wena
Dw i'n dy garu di

Excuse Me

Uxolo
Esgusodwch fi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qwabe
Patagonian Welsh

Where They Speak

Gabon, South Africa
Argentina

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.0038,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Y Wyndodeg

Where They Speak

Georgia, South Africa
Gwynedd

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00700,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ndebele
Y Bowyseg

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
Powys

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00700,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

48
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million7.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.16 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million7.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million0.70 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

isiZulu
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg

Alternative Names

Isizulu, Zunda
Cymraeg

French Name

zoulou
gallois

German Name

Zulu-Sprache
Kymrisch

Pronunciation

[zuːlu]
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]

Ethnicity

Zulu people
Welsh people

History

Origin

19
9th Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Celtic

Branch

Beatu
Brythonic

Language Forms

Early Forms

urban Zulu
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh

Standard Forms

Deep Zulu
Welsh

Language Position

8731
1 120
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Signed Forms

Zulu Sign Language
Welsh Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

zu
cy

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zul
cym

ISO 639 2/B

zul
wel

ISO 639 3

zul
cym

ISO 639 6

zul
cym

Glottocode

zulu1248
wels1247

Linguasphere

99-AUT-fg
50-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Historical

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional

Zulu and Welsh Alphabets

Zulu and Welsh Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Zulu and Welsh. In Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters while in Welsh Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Zulu and Welsh languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Zulu and Welsh 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 Welsh greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Zulu and Welsh are Most Spoken Languages.

All Zulu and Welsh 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 Welsh dialects. Various dialects of Zulu and Welsh language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Zulu are spoken in different Zulu Speaking Countries whereas Welsh Dialects are spoken in different Welsh speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Zulu vs Welsh Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Zulu dialects include: Qwabe, central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Welsh dialects include: Patagonian Welsh , Y Wyndodeg. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Zulu and Welsh Speaking population

Zulu and Welsh speaking population is one of the factors based on which Zulu and Welsh languages can be compared. The total count of Zulu and Welsh Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Welsh language is 0.24 %. 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 Welsh on Zulu vs Welsh where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Zulu and Welsh Language Codes

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