Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Mhoro
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Waita zvako
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Wakadini zvako?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Urare zvakanaka
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Manheru
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Masikati
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Mangwanani
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Ndinokumbirawo
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Ndineurombo
  
Bye
وداعا
  
bye
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Ndinokuda
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Pamusoro
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Hwesa
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Zimbabwe
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Karanga
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
southern Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Zezuru
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
25.00 million
  
40
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
8.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
French Name
arabe
  
shona
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Schona-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Not Available
  
Origin
512 CE
  
20th century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
sn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
sna
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
sna
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
sna
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
core1255
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
99-AUT-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Arabic and Shona Speaking population
Arabic and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Arabic and Shona on Arabic vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Arabic and Shona Language Codes
Arabic and Shona language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Shona Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.