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Countries

Countries

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

61
0 46
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National Language

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe

Second Language

South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa

Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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Interesting Facts

  • Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
  • There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  • 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

German and English Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2637
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2146
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
Mhoro

Thank You

dankjewel
Waita zvako

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?
Wakadini zvako?

Good Night

goede Nacht
Urare zvakanaka

Good Evening

goedenavond
Manheru

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag
Masikati

Good Morning

goedemorgen
Mangwanani

Please

alsjeblieft
Ndinokumbirawo

Sorry

sorry
Ndineurombo

Bye

vaarwel
bye

I Love You

Ik hou van jou
Ndinokuda

Excuse Me

pardon
Pamusoro

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings
Hwesa

Where They Speak

Netherlands
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

590,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Low Saxon
Karanga

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
southern Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.001,100,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Limburgian
Zezuru

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.0016.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

74
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.32 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

22.00 million8.30 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nederlands
chiShona

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru

French Name

néerlandais; flamand
shona

German Name

Niederländisch
Schona-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[ʃoːna]

Ethnicity

Dutch people
Shona people

History

Origin

AD 450-500
20th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Benue-Congo

Branch

Western
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old Shona and Middle Shona

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch
Standard Shona

Language Position

48107
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Shona

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

nl
sn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld
sna

ISO 639 2/B

dut
sna

ISO 639 3

nld
sna

ISO 639 6

nld
sna

Glottocode

mode1257
core1255

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a
99-AUT-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
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Dutch and Shona Alphabets

Dutch and Shona Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dutch and Shona. In Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Shona Alphabets there are 37 letters. To learn Dutch and Shona languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dutch and Shona languages. The Dutch phonology consist Dutch vowels and Dutch consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Dutch greetings vs Shona greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dutch and Shona are Most Spoken Languages.

All Dutch 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 Dutch and Shona dialects. Various dialects of Dutch and Shona language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dutch are spoken in different Dutch Speaking Countries whereas Shona Dialects are spoken in different Shona speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dutch vs Shona Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dutch dialects include: Gronings, Low Saxon. Shona dialects include: Hwesa , Karanga. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Dutch and Shona Speaking population

Dutch and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % 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 Dutch and Shona on Dutch vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and Shona Language Codes

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