Countries
Zimbabwe
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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.
  
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-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
  
bok
  
Thank You
Waita zvako
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Manheru
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Masikati
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Mangwanani
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
  
molim
  
Sorry
Ndineurombo
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
bye
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Ndinokuda
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Hwesa
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Karanga
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Zezuru
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
8.30 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Not Available
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
shona
  
croate
  
German Name
Schona-Sprache
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Croats
  
Origin
20th century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Not Available
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sn
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sna
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
sna
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
sna
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
core1255
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Shona and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Shona and Croatian language. Shona word for "Hello" is Mhoro or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Shona Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Shona vs Croatian Difficulty
The Shona vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Shona Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Shona and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Shona is Not Available while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.