About Shona Language | Shona | Alphabets in Shona

Countries

Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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.

Similar To

Kalanga and Nambya Language

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 19 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 34 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 3 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks

Rank: 10 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Mhoro

Thank You

Waita zvako

How Are You?

Wakadini zvako?

Good Night

Urare zvakanaka

Good Evening

Manheru

Good Afternoon

Masikati

Good Morning

Mangwanani

Please

Ndinokumbirawo

Sorry

Ndineurombo

Bye

bye

I Love You

Ndinokuda

Excuse Me

Pamusoro

Dialects

Dialect 1

Hwesa

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.00

Rank: 36 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Karanga

Where They Speak

southern Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

1,100,000.00

Rank: 63 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Zezuru

Where They Speak

central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland

How Many People Speak

16.00

Rank: 85 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million

Rank: 40 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.13 %

Rank: 54 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

8.30 million

Rank: 51 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million

Rank: 33 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

chiShona

Alternative Names

Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru

French Name

shona

German Name

Schona-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ʃoːna]

Ethnicity

Shona people

History

Origin

20th century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo

Branch

Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Shona and Middle Shona

Standard Forms

Standard Shona

Language Position

107

Rank: 77 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Shona

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sna

ISO 639 2/B

sna

ISO 639 3

sna

ISO 639 6

sna

Glottocode

core1255

Linguasphere

99-AUT-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Shona

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Shona Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Shona Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Shona. Shona phonology gives Shona vowels and Shona consonants. There are 5 vowels and 46 consonants in Shona language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Shona is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Shona language is given in detail in this section.

All Shona countries

Want to explore all Shona countries? About Shona language serves you with all Shona Speaking Countries. Countries that use Shona as official language are called as Shona countries.

Countries that use Shona as their National Language are: Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Shona as second language are: Shona is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Shona greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Shona Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Shona language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Shona language.Learn Shona greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Mhoro
Thank you: Waita zvako
Good Morning: Mangwanani
Good Evening: Manheru
Good Afternoon: Masikati

All Shona Language Codes

Get to know all Shona language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Shona Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.