Countries
Zimbabwe
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Mhoro
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Waita zvako
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Manheru
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Masikati
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Mangwanani
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Ndineurombo
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
bye
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Ndinokuda
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Hwesa
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Karanga
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Zezuru
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
8.30 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Not Available
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
shona
  
népalais
  
German Name
Schona-Sprache
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
20th century
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Not Available
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sn
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sna
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
sna
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
sna
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
core1255
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Shona and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Shona and Nepali language. Shona word for "Hello" is Mhoro or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Shona Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Shona vs Nepali Difficulty
The Shona vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Shona Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Shona and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Shona is Not Available while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.