Countries
Zimbabwe
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-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
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Waita zvako
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Manheru
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Masikati
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Mangwanani
  
günaydın
  
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Ndineurombo
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
bye
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Ndinokuda
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Hwesa
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Karanga
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Zezuru
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
8.30 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Not Available
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
shona
  
turc
  
German Name
Schona-Sprache
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Turkish
  
Origin
20th century
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Not Available
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sn
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sna
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
sna
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
sna
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
core1255
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Shona and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Shona and Turkish language. Shona word for "Hello" is Mhoro or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Shona Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Shona vs Turkish Difficulty
The Shona vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Shona Alphabets and Turkish 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 Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Shona and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Shona is Not Available while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.