Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Hello
  
Mhoro
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
Waita zvako
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Wakadini zvako?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Urare zvakanaka
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Manheru
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Masikati
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Mangwanani
  
Please
Please
  
Ndinokumbirawo
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Ndineurombo
  
Bye
Bye
  
bye
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Ndinokuda
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Pamusoro
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Hwesa
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Karanga
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
southern Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Zezuru
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
25.00 million
  
40
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
8.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
French Name
anglais
  
shona
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Schona-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
20th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
sn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
sna
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
sna
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
sna
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
core1255
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
99-AUT-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Not Available