Zulu

E10115
Bantu language Nguni language language of South Africa

Zulu is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken primarily in South Africa and widely influential in the country’s culture and other local languages.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form Occurrences
Zulu language 8
isiZulu 4
KwaZulu-Natal Zulu 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language ⓘ
Nguni language ⓘ
language of South Africa ⓘ
alsoSpokenIn Eswatini ⓘ
Lesotho ⓘ
Mozambique ⓘ
Zimbabwe ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Northern Ndebele ⓘ
surface form: Ndebele

Swati ⓘ
Xhosa ⓘ
hasDialect Zulu self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: KwaZulu-Natal Zulu

Urban Zulu ⓘ
hasFeature agglutinative morphology ⓘ
click consonants ⓘ
noun class system ⓘ
subject–verb–object word order ⓘ
hasGlottocode zulu1248 ⓘ
hasISO639-1Code zu ⓘ
hasISO639-2Code zul ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code zul ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature three basic click types ⓘ
tone distinctions ⓘ
hasStandardForm Zulu self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Standard Zulu
influences South African advertising ⓘ
South African film ⓘ
South African music ⓘ
South African popular culture ⓘ
South African television ⓘ
isMajorLanguageOf KwaZulu-Natal ⓘ
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Northern Ndebele ⓘ
isOfficialLanguageOf South Africa ⓘ
isPartOf Nguni languages ⓘ
surface form: Nguni language continuum
isTaughtAs second language in South African schools ⓘ
isUsedIn South African government communication ⓘ
South African media ⓘ
education in South Africa ⓘ
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages ⓘ
Benue–Congo languages ⓘ
Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
Southern Bantu ⓘ
surface form: Southern Bantu languages
loanwordsInto Afrikaans ⓘ
South African English ⓘ
nativeName Zulu self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: isiZulu
primaryCountry South Africa ⓘ
regulatingBody Pan South African Language Board ⓘ
subgroup Nguni languages ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (51)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

this entity surface form: Zulu language
Zulu time → alsoKnownAs → Zulu ⓘ
this entity surface form: Zulu language
Shona → closelyRelatedTo → Zulu ⓘ
this entity surface form: Zulu language
Swati → closelyRelatedTo → Zulu ⓘ
Tsonga → closelyRelatedTo → Zulu ⓘ
Xhosa → closelyRelatedTo → Zulu ⓘ
this entity surface form: Zulu language
nde → closelyRelatedTo → Zulu ⓘ
Zulu → hasDialect → Zulu self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Benoni → hasLanguage → Zulu ⓘ
Greytown → hasLanguage → Zulu ⓘ
this entity surface form: isiZulu
Natal → hasMajorLanguage → Zulu ⓘ
this entity surface form: Zulu language
this entity surface form: Zulu language
this entity surface form: Zulu language
this entity surface form: isiZulu
Zulu → hasStandardForm → Zulu self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Standard Zulu
Durban → language → Zulu ⓘ
Natal Colony → language → Zulu ⓘ
Zulu Kingdom → language → Zulu ⓘ
Zulu people → language → Zulu ⓘ
this entity surface form: Zulu language
Egoli → languageOfOrigin → Zulu ⓘ
Randburg → languageUsed → Zulu ⓘ
Soweto → languageUsed → Zulu ⓘ
Zulu → nativeName → Zulu self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: isiZulu