Sawubona!
say it: “sah-woo-BOH-nah”
Zulu
in its own words: isiZulu
- Speakers
- 28 million (estimate)
- Family
- Niger-Congo – Bantu
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- South Africa (regional)
Fun fact
The greeting “sawubona” literally means “we see you”; the reply is “yebo, sawubona”, and to the question of how one is, “ngikhona” – “I am here”.