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Zulu alphabet and characters
The Zulu alphabet should display only the following characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Africa’s languages.
Lower-case characters:
Upper-case characters
Zulu grammar rules
Zulu is an agglutinative language, i.e., grammatical functions are expressed by adding prefixes and suffixes to stems.
Nouns
Zulu nouns are classified into fifteen morphological classes (or genders), with different prefixes for singular and plural.
There are no cases. Gender is not marked.
There are no definite or indefinite articles.
Verbs
Zulu formatting rules
Date formats
| Calendar | Gregorian |
| Short date format | d-MM-yyyy |
| e.g. 17-03-2011 | |
| Long date format | dd MMMM yyyy |
| e.g. 17 Ndasa 2011 |
Numbers and currency
Solutions for Zulu
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