Countries
Zimbabwe
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Mhoro
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Waita zvako
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Manheru
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Masikati
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Mangwanani
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
  
sila
  
Sorry
Ndineurombo
  
maaf
  
Bye
bye
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Ndinokuda
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Hwesa
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Karanga
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Zezuru
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
8.30 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Not Available
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
Not Available
  
French Name
shona
  
malais
  
German Name
Schona-Sprache
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
20th century
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Not Available
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sn
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sna
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
sna
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
sna
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
core1255
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Shona and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Shona and Malaysian language. Shona word for "Hello" is Mhoro or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Shona Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Shona vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Shona vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Shona Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Shona and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Shona is Not Available while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.