Countries
Zimbabwe
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Mhoro
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
Waita zvako
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
Manheru
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
Masikati
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
Mangwanani
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Ndineurombo
  
désolé
  
Bye
bye
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Ndinokuda
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Hwesa
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Karanga
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Zezuru
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
8.30 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
Not Available
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
Français
  
French Name
shona
  
français
  
German Name
Schona-Sprache
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
20th century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Romance
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Not Available
  
Standard French
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sn
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sna
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
sna
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
sna
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
core1255
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic