Countries
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5754
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
718
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
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
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
unjani
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Ngiyacela
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
bye
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Vedda
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
-
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.16 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
zoulou
singhalais
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Sinhalese people
Origin
19
3
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Beatu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
8770
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
sin
ISO 639 2/B
zul
sin
ISO 639 3
zul
sin
ISO 639 6
zul
sin
Glottocode
zulu1248
sinh1246
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional