Countries
Countries
South Africa
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Ethiopia
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
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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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
77
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5031
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Sawubona
Selam
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
unjani
Dehina newot?
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Dehna dur
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
i'ndemin adäru
Please
Ngiyacela
i'bakwon
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
aznallehu
Bye
bye
tschao
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Uxolo
yiqirta
Dialects
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Gondar
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Gondar
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Showa
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
45
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.16 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
zoulou
amharique
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Amharas
History
Origin
19
13th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Semitic
Branch
Beatu
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Amharic
Language Position
8755
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
zu
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
amh
ISO 639 2/B
zul
amh
ISO 639 3
zul
amh
ISO 639 6
zul
amh
Glottocode
zulu1248
amha1245
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional