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About Shona Language



Countries
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Countries
Zimbabwe 0

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Africa 0

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Regulated By
Not Available 0

Interesting Facts
  • Shona language is tonal language.
  • The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
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Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language 0

Derived From
Not Available 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
Not Available 0

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
46 34

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Not Available 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
4 3

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available 0

Greetings
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Hello
Mhoro 0

Thank You
Waita zvako 0

How Are You?
Wakadini zvako? 0

Good Night
Urare zvakanaka 0

Good Evening
Manheru 0

Good Afternoon
Masikati 0

Good Morning
Mangwanani 0

Please
Ndinokumbirawo 0

Sorry
Ndineurombo 0

Bye
bye 0

I Love You
Ndinokuda 0

Excuse Me
Pamusoro 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Hwesa 0

Where They Speak
Zimbabwe 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 2
Karanga 0

Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Zezuru 0

Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
4 4

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
25.00 million 40

Speaking Population
0.13 % 51

Native Speakers
8.30 million 51

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
Not Available 0

Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru 0

French Name
shona 0

German Name
Schona-Sprache 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Not Available 0

History
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Origin
20th century 0

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family 0

Subgroup
Benue-Congo 0

Branch
Bantu 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
Not Available 0

Standard Forms
Not Available 0

Language Position
107 67

Signed Forms
Not Available 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
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ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
sna 0

ISO 639 2/B
sna 0

ISO 639 3
sna 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
core1255 0

Linguasphere
99-AUT-a 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available 0

Language Morphological Typology
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Know Alphabets in Shona

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Shona Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Shona Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Shona. Shona phonology gives Shona vowels and Shona consonants. There are 5 vowels and 46 consonants in Shona language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Shona is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Shona language is given in detail in this section.

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All Shona countries

Want to explore all Shona countries? About Shona language serves you with all Shona Speaking Countries. Countries that use Shona as official language are called as Shona countries.

  • Countries that use Shona as their National Language are: Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Shona as second language are: Shona is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Shona greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Shona Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Shona language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Shona language.Learn Shona greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Mhoro
  • Thank you: Waita zvako
  • Good Morning: Mangwanani
  • Good Evening: Manheru
  • Good Afternoon: Masikati

All Shona Language Codes

Get to know all Shona language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Shona Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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