Zulu

Resources

This section lists resources available on isiZulu. These are not associated with apertium, for the most part.

General

• languagesgulper.com: isiZulu
• wikipedia.org: isiZulu
• africanlanguages.com: isiZulu

Machine translation

• translate.google.com: isiZulu

Dictionaries and phrasebooks

• isiZulu.net: Bilingual Zulu-English dictionary
• Oxford isiZulu dictionary
• English-Zulu Dictionary
• Common phrases
• Common phrases
• Colenso Zulu-English Dictionary
• Döhne Zulu-Kafir Dictionary

Grammars

• The Isizulu: A grammar of the Zulu language - Rev. Lewis Grout
• The Zulu-Kafir language simplified for beginners - Rev. Charles Roberts,
• First Steps in Zulu-Kafir - John Colenso
• A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages - W. H. I. Bleek
• A Zulu Grammar for Beginners - P. A. Stuart

Morphology

• Ukwabelana - An open-source morphological Zulu corpus

Miscellaneous

• News24 in Zulu
• Zulu folk songs
• Zulu proverbs
• South African Constitution in isiZulu

Academic Papers

• Linguistic Assumptions and Lexicographical Traditions in the African Languages - E.B. van Wyk
• Observations on the Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Other Particles of the Isizulu and Its Cognate Languages - Lewis Grout
• A re-evaluation of tenses in isiZulu - Groenwald
• A New Way to Lemmatize Adjectives in a User-friendly Zulu–English Dictionary - GM De Schryver

Grammar

Verbs

"uyambona"

"u-ya-m-bon-a"

he is seeing her

• u - subject morpheme
• ya - tense marker of present tense (the so called "long form")
• m - subject morpheme
• -bona - verb stem consisting of bon - verb root and -a the categorial morpheme

u-baba u-bon-a um-ntwana

the father sees the child

u-baba aka-bon-i um-ntwana

the father doesn't see the child

u-baba u-zo-bon-a um-ntwana

the father will see the child

• zo - nearer future

u-yo-m-bon-a

he will see it

• yo - far future

u-bon-ile

he saw

u-m-bon-ile

he saw it

wa-bon-a

he saw it long ago

aka-m-bon-anga

he didn't see it

• aka is the negative morpheme for nouns in class 1 (like ubaba)

aku-zu-m-bon-a

he will not see it

ba-ya-bon-ana

they see each other

• -ana indicates reflexive

External links

• Wikipedia: Zulu language