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Zulu is the mother language of the Zulu people. It belongs to the Nguni/Bantu languages family. The population of the Zulu people is nearly 10 million, the majority of which (more than 95%) resides in South Africa - mainly in areas like Zululand and northern Natal. They are also found in Botswana, Malawi, Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique. In 1994, Zulu was declared as one of the official languages of South Africa.
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- Zulu was an oral language just like most of the other indigenous Southern African languages. It was developed in written form after the coming of European missionaries. These missionaries began documenting Zulu using the Latin alphabet. Norwegian missionary Hans Schreuder published the first Zulu language grammar book in 1850. In 1883, Zulu language had its first written document in the form of a Bible translation.
- Zulu is an agglutinative language which follows a Subject-Verb-Object word order.
- Zulu is a tonal language, however traditionally it is written without indicating the tone, this can create confusion as the language is distinctly tonal and the meanings of words can be altered by the use of a different tone.
- The use of click consonants is one of the distinguishing features of Zulu. The clicks are basically of three types – dental, alveolar and lateral. These have variants as they are voiced, nasalized or aspirated, resulting in 15 different click sounds.
- The Zulu language has contributed many words to the vocabulary of Standard English used in South Africa. These words include names of local animals like impala and mamba, Muti for medicine and inDuna for leader among others.
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