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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

71
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
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Interesting Facts

  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language

Derived From

Albanian Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2637
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

946
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

30 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Mhoro

Thank You

Danke
Waita zvako

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Wakadini zvako?

Good Night

gute Nacht
Urare zvakanaka

Good Evening

guten Abend
Manheru

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
Masikati

Good Morning

guten Morgen
Mangwanani

Please

bitte
Ndinokumbirawo

Sorry

Verzeihung
Ndineurombo

Bye

Tschüs
bye

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Ndinokuda

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Pamusoro

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Hwesa

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Karanga

Where They Speak

Germany
southern Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

820,000.001,100,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Zezuru

Where They Speak

Texas
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland

How Many People Speak

6,000.0016.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

284
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million8.30 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
chiShona

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru

French Name

allemand
shona

German Name

Deutsch
Schona-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ʃoːna]

Ethnicity

Germans
Shona people

History

Origin

6th Century AD
20th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Benue-Congo

Branch

Western
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Shona

Language Position

9107
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Signed Shona

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
sn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
sna

ISO 639 2/B

ger
sna

ISO 639 3

deu
sna

ISO 639 6

deus
sna

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
core1255

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
99-AUT-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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German and Shona Alphabets

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

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

German and Shona Speaking population

German and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of German and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % 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 German and Shona on German vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Shona Language Codes

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