Countries
India
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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Interesting Facts
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
- 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
Bengali and Oriya
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5237
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
115
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4146
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
nomoskaar
Mhoro
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
Waita zvako
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
subhoraattri
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
Manheru
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
Masikati
Good Morning
suprobhaat
Mangwanani
Please
anugroha kori
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
Ndineurombo
Bye
biḍai
bye
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Karanga
Where They Speak
Western Assam
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Assam
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
15.30 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
15.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
15.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
assamais
shona
German Name
Assamesisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Shona people
Origin
7th century A.D
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Assamese
Standard Shona
Language Position
65107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
as
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
sna
ISO 639 2/B
asm
sna
ISO 639 3
asm
sna
ISO 639 6
asm
sna
Glottocode
assa1263
core1255
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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