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Zulu
Nguni language of eastern South Africa and neighbouring countries
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Wikidata (Q10179) ↗
Details
Instance of
language
,
modern language
Subclass of
Nguni
,
Zunda
Country
Lesotho
,
Mozambique
,
South Africa
category for films in this language
Category:Zulu-language films
Ethnologue language status
1 National
has grammatical case
vocative case
,
locative case
has tense
present tense
,
past tense
,
future tense
indigenous to
Gauteng
,
Mpumalanga
,
KwaZulu-Natal
language regulatory body
Pan South African Language Board
linguistic typology
subject–verb–object
,
agglutinative language
,
noun-adjective
,
stress
,
Meeussen's rule
,
synthetic language
,
pitch accent
,
pro-drop language
,
tonal language
native label
isiZulu
number of speakers, writers, or signers
12100000
, 11969100
, 15700000
topic's main category
Category:Zulu language
Wikimedia language code
zu
writing system
Latin script
Works in this collection
(2)
Woza Albert!
—
Zulu Horizons
—
Connected on Wikidata
Subject of
Zulu proverbs
Indandatho yegolide
Unonjabulo imbali yase mlizeli
Aphelile agambaqa
Ezawokhokho
Inkunzi Isematholeni
Igudu likaSomcabeko
A systemized explanation for vowel phoneme change in the inadmissible phonological structure /VV/ in Zulu
Pluralising Nouns in isiZulu and Related Languages
Basis for
Fanagalo
Camtho
Authority files
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