Zulu
Nguni language of eastern South Africa and neighbouring countries
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Summary
Zulu is a language[1]. Zulu ranks in the top 0.36% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,190 views/month, #20 of 5,611).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Lesotho[3], Mozambique[4], South Africa[5]
- Instance of: modern language[6]
- Subclass of: Nguni[7], Zunda[8]
- Writing system: Latin script[9]
- Commons category: Zulu language[10]
- Wikimedia language code: zu[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Zulu language[12]
- Language regulatory body: Pan South African Language Board[13]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 12,100,000[14], 11,969,100[15], 15,700,000[16]
- Native label: isiZulu[17]
- Indigenous to: Gauteng[18], Mpumalanga[19], KwaZulu-Natal[20]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ZUL[21], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133091783[22]
- Has grammatical case: vocative case[23], locative case[24]
- Has tense: present tense[25], past tense[26], future tense[27]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[28]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[29], agglutinative language[30], noun-adjective[31], stress[32], Meeussen's rule[33], synthetic language[34], pitch accent[35], pro-drop language[36], tonal language[37]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[38]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Zulu-language films[39]
- Maintained by WikiProject: Obelepédia[40]
Why It Matters
Zulu has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] Zulu is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]