1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Zimbabwe
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
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1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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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
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
Manheru
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.30 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Schona-Sprache
Chinesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
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6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Not Available
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating