1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Zimbabwe
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Institute for the Languages of Finland
1.8 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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
1.9 Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
Mitä kuuluu?
3.4 Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
hyvää yötä
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Masikati
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
Mangwanani
Hyvää huomenta
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ndinokuda
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Finland, Rauma
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Finland, Sweden
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million5.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.30 million5.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Suomi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
ethnic Finns
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Not Available
standard Finnish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Finnish
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic