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Preferred term

zulZulu  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Zulu is the language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa. Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa (24% of the population) as well as being understood by over 50% of the population (Ethnologue 2005). It became one of South Africa's eleven official languages in 1994.

Entry terms

  • Zulu language

ISO 639-1 code

  • zu

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • zul

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • zul

ISO 639-3 code

  • zul

Notation

  • zul

In other languages

  • zoulou

    French

  • Zoulou
  • Zulu

    German

  • IsiZulu
  • zulu

    Italian

  • Lingua zulu
  • Portuguese

  • Língua zulu
  • zulú

    Spanish

  • Idioma zulú

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/zul

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