Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Zimbabwe
National Language
China, Taiwan
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
Japanese and Korean Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Alphabets in
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Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Manheru
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Masikati
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Mangwanani
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Ndineurombo
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Pamusoro
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Zimbabwe
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
southern Zimbabwe
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
chinois
shona
German Name
Chinesisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Han
Shona people
Origin
1250 BC
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Shona
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
sini1245
core1255
Linguasphere
79-AAA
99-AUT-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Chinese and Shona 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 Chinese and Shona greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Shona language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Shona word for "Thank You" is Waita zvako. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Shona Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Shona Difficulty
The Chinese vs Shona difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Shona 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 Chinese and Shona are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Shona, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Shona time required is 30 weeks.