Countries
Zimbabwe
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Indonesia
  
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
  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Mhoro
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Waita zvako
  
matur nuwun
  
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
  
piye kabare?
  
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
  
wengi sing apik
  
Good Evening
Manheru
  
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Afternoon
Masikati
  
Sugeng siang
  
Good Morning
Mangwanani
  
Sugeng énjing
  
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Ndineurombo
  
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Bye
bye
  
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
I Love You
Ndinokuda
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
Hwesa
  
Pekalongan
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 2
Karanga
  
Cirebon
  
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 3
Zezuru
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
82.00 million
  
19
Native Speakers
8.30 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Native Name
Not Available
  
basa Jawa
  
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
Djawa, Jawa
  
French Name
shona
  
javanais
  
German Name
Schona-Sprache
  
Javanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Origin
20th century
  
450 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Not Available
  
Javanese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sn
  
jv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sna
  
jav
  
ISO 639 2/B
sna
  
jav
  
ISO 639 3
sna
  
jav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
core1255
  
java1253
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Shona and Javanese 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 Javanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Shona and Javanese language. Shona word for "Hello" is Mhoro or Javanese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common Shona Greetings and Javanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Shona vs Javanese Difficulty
The Shona vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Shona Alphabets and Javanese 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 Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Shona and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Shona is Not Available while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.