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Countries

Countries

East Asia, European Union, South America
Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

31
0 46
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National Language

East Asia, European Union
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe

Second Language

Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe, South America
Africa

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Akademio de Esperanto
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Interesting Facts

  • The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
  • Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  • 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

Latin and Italian Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3237
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2746
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

24
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

6 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Halo
Mhoro

Thank You

Dankon
Waita zvako

How Are You?

Kiel vi sanas?
Wakadini zvako?

Good Night

Bonan nokton
Urare zvakanaka

Good Evening

Bonan vesperon
Manheru

Good Afternoon

Bonan posttagmezon
Masikati

Good Morning

Bonan matenon
Mangwanani

Please

Mi petas
Ndinokumbirawo

Sorry

Mi bedaŭras!
Ndineurombo

Bye

Ĝis poste
bye

I Love You

Mi amas vin
Ndinokuda

Excuse Me

Pardonu!
Pamusoro

Dialects

Dialect 1

Not present
Hwesa

Where They Speak

Not present
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Not present
Karanga

Where They Speak

Not present
southern Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.001,100,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Zezuru

Where They Speak

Not present
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland

How Many People Speak

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

04
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

2.20 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.20 million8.30 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Esperanto
chiShona

Alternative Names

Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru

French Name

espéranto
shona

German Name

Esperanto
Schona-Sprache

Pronunciation

[espeˈranto]
[ʃoːna]

Ethnicity

Esperanto speakers
Shona people

History

Origin

1887
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

Proto-Esperanto
Old Shona and Middle Shona

Standard Forms

Esperanto
Standard Shona

Language Position

33107
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signuno
Signed Shona

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

eo
sn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

epo
sna

ISO 639 2/B

epo
sna

ISO 639 3

epo
sna

ISO 639 6

epo
sna

Glottocode

espe1235
core1255

Linguasphere

51-AAB-da
99-AUT-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Constructed
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
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Esperanto and Shona Alphabets

Esperanto and Shona Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Esperanto and Shona. In Esperanto Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Shona Alphabets there are 37 letters. To learn Esperanto and Shona languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Esperanto and Shona languages. The Esperanto phonology consist Esperanto vowels and Esperanto consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Esperanto greetings vs Shona greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Esperanto and Shona are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Esperanto and Shona Speaking population

Esperanto and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which Esperanto and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of Esperanto and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Esperanto language is 0.03 % 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 Esperanto and Shona on Esperanto vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Esperanto and Shona Language Codes

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