Countries
South Africa
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5753
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
715
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5041
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
unjani
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Ngiyacela
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
bye
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Mappila
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
India
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.16 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiZulu
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
zoulou
malayalam
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Malayali
Origin
19
9th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early form
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Malayalam
Language Position
8729
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
mal
ISO 639 2/B
zul
mal
ISO 639 3
zul
mal
ISO 639 6
zul
mal
Glottocode
zulu1248
mala1464
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic