Countries
South Africa
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Bulgaria
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Macedonian language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5730
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
unjani
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Ngiyacela
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
458
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Balgarski
French Name
zoulou
bulgare
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Bulgarian people
Origin
19
9th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Branch
Beatu
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
8788
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
bul
ISO 639 2/B
zul
bul
ISO 639 3
zul
bul
ISO 639 6
zul
buls
Glottocode
zulu1248
bulg1262
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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