The Zulu Wikipedia is the Zulu language

Zulu language

Zulu is the language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority of whom live in South Africa. Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa as well as being understood by over 50% of the population...

 edition of Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...

, a free, open-content encyclopedia. Started in November 2003, it had 186 articles as of May 13, 2009, making it the 221st largest Wikipedia language edition.

Although it was the third African language Wikipedia to reach 100 articles, progress has been slow, and it has been surpassed by numerous other African languages.

As Zulu is mutually intelligible with Xhosa

Xhosa language

Xhosa is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately 7.9 million people, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a tonal language, that is, the same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meanings when said...

, both of which are Nguni languages, it is possible for articles in the Zulu edition to be easily translated into Xhosa for the Xhosa Wikipedia. Similar trans-wiki efforts have been made for Scandinavian-language editions, such as the Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia

The Swedish Wikipedia is the Swedish language edition of Wikipedia. It was the third edition of Wikipedia, started in May 2001 alongside German Wikipedia, after English Wikipedia and Catalan Wikipedia...

, Norwegian

Norwegian Wikipedia

There are two Norwegian language editions of Wikipedia: one for articles written in Bokmål or Riksmål, and one for articles written in Nynorsk. The first site, the original Norwegian Wikipedia, launched on November 26, 2001, and originally allowed articles to be written in any written Norwegian...

, and Danish

Danish Wikipedia

The Danish Wikipedia started on 1 February 2002 and is the Danish-language edition of Wikipedia. As of October 11, 2011 it has over 155,000 articles.- Characteristics :* No fair use: The Danish Wikipedia has no fair use provisions...

 through Wikimedia's Skanwiki collaboration tool.

External links

Zulu Wikipedia Zulu Wikipedia mobile version (not fully supported)

• Statistics for Zulu Wikipedia by Erik Zachte