Countries
Estonia, European Union
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
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
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
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Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish 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
Finnish
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2737
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1846
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Mhoro
Thank You
aitäh
Waita zvako
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
Head ööd
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Manheru
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Masikati
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Mangwanani
Please
Palun
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
Vabandust
Ndineurombo
Bye
Head aega
bye
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Karanga
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Zezuru
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million8.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
chiShona
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
estonien
shona
German Name
Estnisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Shona people
Origin
13th century
20th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Benue-Congo
Branch
Finnic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Estonian
Standard Shona
Language Position
22107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
sna
ISO 639 2/B
est
sna
ISO 639 3
est
sna
ISO 639 6
est
sna
Glottocode
esto1258
core1255
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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