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Name:
Zulu
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Isizulu; Zunda; Ngoni; Kingoni
Spoken in:
Malawi, South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Mozambique
Number of speakers:
9,980,000 in South Africa (2006), increasing. Population total all countries: 10,349,100
(Ethnologue)
Code:
zul
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup:
Nguni (S.40) (guni)
Child Dialects:
Lala; Zulu (Northern) (zul-lal)
Ngoni (zul-ngo)
Qwabe; Zulu (Southern) (zul-qwa)
Map of Zulu
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