Countries
South Africa
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Myanmar
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Myanmar Language Commission
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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5733
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5033
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tangut
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Sawubona
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
unjani
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Ngiyacela
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Intha
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Burma
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
45
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
zoulou
birman
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Bamar people
Origin
19
1113 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Burmese
Language Position
8743
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
mya
ISO 639 2/B
zul
bur
ISO 639 3
zul
mya
ISO 639 6
zul
mya
Glottocode
zulu1248
sout3159
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating