Zulu - Wikidata Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Community portal Project chat Create a new Item Recent changes Random Item Query Service Nearby Help Special pages Lexicographical data Create a new Lexeme Recent changes Random Lexeme Search Search English Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Zulu (Q10179) Item Discussion English Read View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read View history General What links here Related changes Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Concept URI Print/export Create a book Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikidata Nguni language of eastern South Africa and neighbouring countries isiZulu Zulu language Language Label Description Also known as default for all languages No label defined – zu zul English Zulu Nguni language of eastern South Africa and neighbouring countries isiZulu Zulu language Statements instance of natural language 1 reference stated in Ethnologue modern language 1 reference reference URL https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/zul subclass of Nguni 0 references Zunda 0 references image Potgietersrus, South Africa - panoramio (14).jpg 4,752 × 3,168; 6.02 MB 0 references native label isiZulu (Zulu) 1 reference reference URL https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/main/zu.xml pronunciation audio LL-Q33890 (nso)-Mohau-Sezulu.wav 1.3 s; 113 KB language of work or name Northern Sotho 1 reference reference URL https://lingualibre.fr/wiki/Q21206 country Lesotho 1 reference reference URL https://scriptsource.org/country/LS title ScriptSource - Lesotho (English) retrieved 21 August 2023 Mozambique 1 reference reference URL https://scriptsource.org/country/MZ title ScriptSource - Mozambique (English) retrieved 21 August 2023 South Africa 1 reference reference URL https://scriptsource.org/country/ZA title ScriptSource - South Africa (English) retrieved 21 August 2023 indigenous to Gauteng 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project Russian Wikipedia Wikimedia import URL https://ru.wikipedia.org/?oldid=97349960 Mpumalanga 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project Russian Wikipedia Wikimedia import URL https://ru.wikipedia.org/?oldid=97349960 KwaZulu-Natal 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project Russian Wikipedia Wikimedia import URL https://ru.wikipedia.org/?oldid=97349960 coordinate location 29°S, 31°E 0 references linguistic typology subject–verb–object 0 references agglutinative language 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia noun-adjective 0 references stress 0 references Meeussen's rule 0 references synthetic language 0 references pitch accent 0 references pro-drop language 0 references tonal language 0 references has grammatical case vocative case 0 references locative case 0 references has tense present tense 0 references past tense 0 references future tense 0 references writing system Latin script 0 references language regulatory body Pan South African Language Board 0 references number of speakers, writers, or signers 12,100,000 applies to part first language point in time 2019 1 reference stated in Ethnologue inferred from list of languages by number of native speakers retrieved 23 April 2022 11,969,100 applies to part first language point in time 2011 1 reference stated in Ethnologue 15,700,000 applies to part second language point in time 2011 1 reference stated in Ethnologue Ethnologue language status 1 National 1 reference stated in Ethnologue retrieved 10 May 2019 reference URL https://www.ethnologue.com/language/zul icon ISO 639 Icon zu.svg 400 × 180; 602 bytes 0 references distribution map South Africa 2011 Zulu speakers proportion map.svg 809 × 709; 534 KB 0 references page banner Zulu phrasebook banner.jpg 3,295 × 470; 1.83 MB 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project English Wikivoyage Wikimedia import URL https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Zulu_phrasebook on focus list of Wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4 point in time 31 October 2022 0 references maintained by WikiProject Obelepédia point in time 2021 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project Portuguese Wikiversity Wikimedia import URL https://pt.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Obelep%C3%A9dia&oldid=170124 retrieved 6 March 2025 schematic Zulu vowel chart.svg 923 × 702; 17 KB 0 references Wikimedia language code zu 0 references exact match http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ZUL 1 reference stated in Language reference URL https://op.europa.eu/web/eu-vocabularies/at-dataset/-/resource/dataset/language http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133091783 0 references Commons category Zulu language 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia topic's main category Category:Zulu language 0 references category for films in this language Category:Zulu-language films 0 references Identifiers ISO 639-1 code zu 2 references stated in Language reference URL https://op.europa.eu/web/eu-vocabularies/at-dataset/-/resource/dataset/language imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia ISO 639-2 code zul applies to part terminology bibliography 2 references stated in Language reference URL https://op.europa.eu/web/eu-vocabularies/at-dataset/-/resource/dataset/language imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia ISO 639-3 code zul 2 references stated in Language reference URL https://op.europa.eu/web/eu-vocabularies/at-dataset/-/resource/dataset/language imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia ISOCAT ID 1003 1 reference archive URL https://web.archive.org/web/20170209043446/http://www.isocat.org/rest/profile/10#DC-1003 Bibliothèque nationale de France ID 121255923 0 references GND ID 4120405-0 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project German Wikipedia FAST ID 1184918 0 references J9U entity ID 987007536538205171 subject named as (monolingual text) Zulu language (English) שפת זולו (Hebrew) اللغة الزولوية (Arabic) 1 reference stated in National Library of Israel Library of Congress Authorities ID sh85150044 0 references National Library of Latvia ID 000312347 0 references NL CR AUT ID ph241116 subject named as zuluština 0 references IdRef ID 029684730 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project French Wikipedia ABS ASCL 2011 code 9213 0 references Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID 300389637 0 references ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID 294945644 0 references Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID topic/Zulu-language subject named as Zulu language 0 references Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021) 27949 0 references Ethnologue.com language code zul 0 references EU Knowledge Graph item ID Q2473050 0 references Freebase ID /m/0gndv 1 reference stated in Freebase Data Dumps publication date 28 October 2013 GitHub topic zulu 0 references Glottolog code zulu1248 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia GOST 7.75–97 code зул 195 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project Russian Wikipedia Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID zulu 0 references Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme) 0218747 0 references Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID zulu_-_språk 0 references Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017) 1996929 subject named as ЗУЛУ 0 references Guthrie code S42 0 references Harper's tag zulu-language 0 references IAB code 1214 0 references IETF language tag zu 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project French Wikipedia KBpedia ID ZuluLanguage 1 reference stated in KBpedia retrieved 9 July 2020 Krugosvet article (archived) gumanitarnye_nauki/lingvistika/ZULU.html 0 references LC and MARC vocabularies ID languages/zul 0 references iso639-2/zul 0 references iso639-1/zu 0 references Lex ID zulu 0 references Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID sj97001136 0 references Lingua Libre ID Q143 0 references Linguasphere code 99-AUT-fg 0 references Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued) 2778105672 0 references Online PWN Encyclopedia ID 4002205 0 references Open Library subject ID zulu_language 0 references OpenAlex ID C2778105672 1 reference stated in OpenAlex retrieved 26 January 2022 reference URL https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format archive URL https://web.archive.org/web/20220125070108/https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format archive date 25 January 2022 POSIX locale identifier zu 0 references Quora topic ID Zulu 0 references UN Thesaurus ID 1007138 0 references Vikidia article ID fr:Zoulou 0 references WALS lect code zul 0 references Wikidata language code zu 0 references WordNet 3.1 Synset ID 07007452-n 0 references ‎Yale LUX ID concept/f86e6e52-95a4-4ba5-8cc5-913e326154dd 0 references YSO ID 29124 subject named as (monolingual text) zulun kieli (Finnish) Zulu language (English) zulu (språk) (Swedish) zulugiella (Northern Sami) 0 references Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) 3smVX4 subject named as 祖鲁语 last update 20 January 2022 0 references Sitelinks Wikipedia(116 entries) afwiki Zoeloe amwiki ዙሉኛ anpwiki ज़ुलु भाषा anwiki Idioma zulú arwiki اللغة الزولوية arzwiki الزولويه astwiki Idioma zulú azwiki Zulu dili barwiki IsiZulu bewiki Зулу bgwiki Зулуски език bnwiki জুলু ভাষা bowiki ཙོ་ལུའུའི་སྐད། brwiki Zouloueg cawiki Zulu ckbwiki زمانی زوولوو cswiki Zuluština cvwiki Зулу cywiki Swlŵeg dawiki Zulu (sprog) dewiki IsiZulu elwiki Ζουλού γλώσσα enwiki Zulu language eowiki Zulua lingvo eswiki Idioma zulú etwiki Suulu keel euwiki Zuluera fawiki زبان زولو fiwiki Zulun kieli fowiki Zulu mál frrwiki Zulu (Spriik) frwiki Zoulou fywiki Sûlû (taal) gawiki An tSúlúis gdwiki Zulu (cànan) glwiki Lingua zulú hawiki Harshen Zulu hewiki זולו (שפה) hifwiki Zulu bhasa hiwiki ज़ुलु भाषा hrwiki Zulu jezik huwiki Zulu nyelv idwiki Bahasa Zulu iewiki Zulu igwiki Asụsụ Zulu ilowiki Pagsasao a Zulu iswiki Súlú itwiki Lingua zulu jawiki ズールー語 kbpwiki Suluu kʊnʊŋ kgewiki Basa Zulu kgwiki Kizulu kkwiki Зулу тілі kmwiki ភាសាហ្ស៊ូលូ kowiki 줄루어 kvwiki Зулу (кыв) kwwiki Zoulou lawiki Lingua Zuluana lnwiki Isizulu ltwiki Zulų kalba lvwiki Zulu valoda mgwiki Fiteny zolo mkwiki Зулу mlwiki സുലു ഭാഷ mrwiki झुलू भाषा mswiki Bahasa Zulu mznwiki زولو newwiki जुलू भाषा nlwiki Zoeloe (taal) nnwiki Zulu nowiki Zulu (språk) nsowiki Sezulu ocwiki Zolo pawiki ਜ਼ੁਲੂ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ plwiki Język zulu pmswiki Lenga Zulu pnbwiki زولو زبان pswiki زولو ژبه ptwiki Língua zulu quwiki Zulu simi rowiki Limba zulu ruwiki Зулу satwiki ᱡᱩᱞᱩ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ sewiki Zulugiella shwiki Zulu jezik simplewiki Zulu language siwiki සූලූ භාෂාව snwiki Chizulu sowiki Af-Zulu sqwiki Gjuha zulu srwiki Зулу (језик) sswiki SíZulu stwiki Sezulu svwiki Zulu (språk) swwiki Kizulu tawiki சுலு மொழி thwiki ภาษาซูลู tlwiki Wikang Zulu tnwiki Sezulu trwiki Zuluca ttwiki Зулу теле ugwiki زۇلۇچە ukwiki Зулу urwiki زولو زبان uzwiki Zulu vepwiki Zulun kel' vewiki IsiZulu viwiki Tiếng Zulu wuuwiki 祖鲁语 xhwiki IsiZulu xmfwiki ზულუ (ნინა) yowiki Èdè Zulu zh_min_nanwiki Zulu-gí zh_yuewiki 祖魯文 zhwiki 祖鲁语 zuwiki IsiZulu Wikibooks(3 entries) enwikibooks Zulu eowikibooks Zulua svwikibooks Språkkurser/Zulu Wikinews(0 entries) Wikiquote(0 entries) Wikisource(0 entries) Wikiversity(0 entries) Wikivoyage(1 entry) enwikivoyage Zulu phrasebook Wiktionary(4 entries) dewiktionary Wiktionary:isiZulu enwiktionary Wiktionary:Zulu entry guidelines eowiktionary Aldono:Zulua lawiktionary Victionarium:Lingua Zuluana Multilingual sites(1 entry) wikifunctionswiki Z1330 Retrieved from "https://www…