{i} important tribe that inhabits the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa; Bantu language of the Zulu African tribe; (Communications) code word for letter "Z
Zulu is the language spoken by Zulus and also by many other black South Africans. Nguni-speaking people living in KwaZulu/Natal province in South Africa. Numbering about 9.5 million, they are South Africa's largest ethnic group. Traditionally grain farmers, they also kept large herds of cattle. European settlers wrested grazing and water resources from the Zulu in prolonged warfare during the 19th century; with much of their wealth lost, modern Zulu depend largely on wage labour on farms owned by whites or work in the cities. The Zulu provide the main support for the Inkatha Freedom Party. Many Zulu belong to independent or separatist African churches, though the traditional religion, based on ancestor worship and belief in a creator-god, witches, and sorcerers, remains strong. See also Shaka
a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa a member of the tall Negroid people of southeast Africa living in northern Natal
One of the most important members of the South African, or Bantu, family of languages, spoken partly in Natal and partly in Zululand, but understood, and more or less in use, over a wide territory, at least as far north as the Zambezi; called also Zulu-Kaffir