Countries
South Africa
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Thailand
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
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5744
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
732
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5044
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Thai
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
unjani
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
Ngiyacela
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Isan
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Isan
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.004,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
49
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.85 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million20.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
zoulou
thaï
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Origin
19
1283 CE
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tai
Branch
Beatu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Thai
Language Position
8747
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Thai Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
tha
ISO 639 2/B
zul
tha
ISO 639 3
zul
tha
ISO 639 6
zul
tha
Glottocode
zulu1248
thai1261
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating