Countries
South Africa
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Japan
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5799
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5014
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
unjani
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Ngiyacela
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Hakata
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Kansai
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
kansai
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
431
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
日本語
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Nihongo
French Name
zoulou
japonais
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
19
1185
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Japanese
Language Position
878
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
zul
jpn
ISO 639 3
zul
jpn
ISO 639 6
zul
jpn
Glottocode
zulu1248
nucl1643
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic