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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

91
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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Interesting Facts

  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  • 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

Serbain and Bosnian
Kalanga and Nambya Language

Derived From

Church Slavonic
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3037
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2546
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
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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Greetings

Hello

bok
Mhoro

Thank You

hvala
Waita zvako

How Are You?

kako si
Wakadini zvako?

Good Night

laku noć
Urare zvakanaka

Good Evening

dobra večer
Manheru

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
Masikati

Good Morning

dobro jutro
Mangwanani

Please

molim
Ndinokumbirawo

Sorry

Oprostite
Ndineurombo

Bye

Doviđenja
bye

I Love You

Volim te
Ndinokuda

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
Pamusoro

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Hwesa

Where They Speak

Croatia
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

660,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Karanga

Where They Speak

Croatia
southern Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.001,100,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Zezuru

Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.0016.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

794
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million8.30 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
chiShona

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru

French Name

croate
shona

German Name

Kroatisch
Schona-Sprache

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ʃoːna]

Ethnicity

Croats
Shona people

History

Origin

9th century
20th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

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Benue-Congo

Branch

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Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Standard Shona

Language Position

23107
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Signed Shona

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
sn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
sna

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
sna

ISO 639 3

hrv
sna

ISO 639 6

hrv
sna

Glottocode

croa1245
core1255

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
99-AUT-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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Croatian and Shona Alphabets

Croatian and Shona Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and Shona. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Shona Alphabets there are 37 letters. To learn Croatian and Shona languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and Shona languages. The Croatian phonology consist Croatian vowels and Croatian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Croatian greetings vs Shona greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and Shona are Most Spoken Languages.

All Croatian and Shona Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Croatian and Shona dialects. Various dialects of Croatian and Shona language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Croatian are spoken in different Croatian Speaking Countries whereas Shona Dialects are spoken in different Shona speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Croatian vs Shona Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Croatian dialects include: Chakavian, Chakavian. Shona dialects include: Hwesa , Karanga. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Croatian and Shona Speaking population

Croatian and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Croatian and Shona on Croatian vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Shona Language Codes

Croatian and Shona language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Croatian and Shona Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.