Countries
Zimbabwe
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Azerbaijan, Gambia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Turkish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Osmanly language
  
Alphabets in
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Azerbaijani-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Mhoro
  
Salam
  
Thank You
Waita zvako
  
Təşəkkür edirəm
  
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
  
necəsən
  
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
  
yaxşı gecə
  
Good Evening
Manheru
  
Axşamınız xeyir
  
Good Afternoon
Masikati
  
Günortanız Xeyir
  
Good Morning
Mangwanani
  
Sabahınız xeyir
  
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
  
lütfən
  
Sorry
Ndineurombo
  
üzr
  
Bye
bye
  
xudafiz
  
I Love You
Ndinokuda
  
Mən səni sevirəm
  
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
  
Bağışlayın
  
Dialect 1
Hwesa
  
Derbent
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Russia
  
Dialect 2
Karanga
  
Gazakh
  
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
  
Azerbaijan
  
Dialect 3
Zezuru
  
Baku
  
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
Azerbaijan
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
26.00 million
  
39
Native Speakers
8.30 million
  
99+
23.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Not Available
  
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
  
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
  
French Name
shona
  
azéri
  
German Name
Schona-Sprache
  
Aserbeidschanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Azerbaijani
  
Origin
20th century
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Not Available
  
Azerbaijani
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sn
  
az
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sna
  
aze
  
ISO 639 2/B
sna
  
aze
  
ISO 639 3
sna
  
aze
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
core1255
  
azer1255
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Shona and Azerbaijani Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Shona and Azerbaijani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Shona and Azerbaijani language. Shona word for "Hello" is Mhoro or Azerbaijani word for "Thank You" is Təşəkkür edirəm. Find more of such common Shona Greetings and Azerbaijani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Shona vs Azerbaijani Difficulty
The Shona vs Azerbaijani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Shona Alphabets and Azerbaijani Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Shona and Azerbaijani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Shona and Azerbaijani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Shona is Not Available while to learn Azerbaijani time required is 44 weeks.