Northern Ndebele is a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe. It is closely related to Zulu and is used in education and media.
| 🌐 ISO Code: | nd / nde |
| 🧬 Language Family: | Niger-Congo |
| ✍️ Writing System: | Latin |
| 🔤 Alphabet Size: | 26 |
| 📍 Spoken In: | South Africa, Zimbabwe |
| 🗣️ Native Speakers: | 1.5 million |
| 🌎 Total Speakers: | 2 million |
| 📚 Wikipedia Articles: | 700 |
| 🏛️ UN Official Language: | — |
| 📖 Literature Age: | 0.5 centuries |
| 👨🎓 Language Learners: | 0.2 million |
| 🗺️ Dominant Region: | Southern Africa |
| 🔠 Has Transliteration: | — |
| 🧩 Grammatical Cases: | 6 |
| 🎵 Tonal Language: | ✔️ |
| 👩🎤 Grammatical Gender: | Noun Class System |
| 🔡 Average Word Length: | 1.5 syllables |
| 🔤 Verb Conjugation Complexity: | Moderate |
| 🧩 Scrabble Score (avg): | 10 |
| ⏳ FSI Learning Hours: | 1500 |
| 📏 Longest Word: | nceda |
| 🤖 Our AI Knowledge: |
★★★★★
Basic comprehension and some speaking ability.
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