Zulu

E10115

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.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Zulu canonical 153
Zulu language 22
isiZulu 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
Nguni language
language of South Africa
alsoSpokenIn Eswatini
Lesotho
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
closelyRelatedTo Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele

Swati
Xhosa
hasDialect KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
linked to: 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 Standard Zulu
linked to: 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 language continuum
linked to: Nguni languages
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 languages
linked to: Southern Bantu
loanwordsInto Afrikaans
South African English
nativeName isiZulu
linked to: Zulu
primaryCountry South Africa
regulatingBody Pan South African Language Board
subgroup Nguni languages
writingSystem Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (185)

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

South Africa officialLanguage isiZulu
linked to: Zulu
Natal Colony language Zulu
Zulu nativeName isiZulu
linked to: Zulu
Zulu hasStandardForm Standard Zulu
linked to: Zulu
Zulu hasDialect KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
linked to: Zulu
Durban language Zulu
Xhosa closelyRelatedTo Zulu language
linked to: Zulu
Zulu Kingdom language Zulu
nde closelyRelatedTo Zulu
Nguni languages hasMember Zulu language
linked to: Zulu
Nguni languages hasMajorLanguage Zulu language
linked to: Zulu
Nguni languages areMutuallyIntelligibleToDegree Zulu language
linked to: Zulu
Nguni languages ZundaNguniIncludes Zulu language
linked to: Zulu
Southern Ndebele closelyRelatedTo Zulu language
linked to: Zulu
Natal hasMajorLanguage Zulu
Mpumalanga hasOfficialLanguage isiZulu
linked to: Zulu
Shona closelyRelatedTo Zulu
Soweto languageUsed Zulu
Greytown hasLanguage Zulu
Zulu people language Zulu language
linked to: Zulu
Zulu time alsoKnownAs Zulu
Benoni hasLanguage Zulu
Swati closelyRelatedTo Zulu
Benue–Congo languages hasNotableLanguage Zulu language
linked to: Zulu
Randburg languageUsed Zulu
Sedibeng District Municipality hasLanguage isiZulu
linked to: Zulu
Tsonga closelyRelatedTo Zulu