How many people speak Shona?

Shona Speaking Population

Here you get to know how many people speak Shona in percentage. The Shona speaking population is 0.13 %. Shona Speaking Population is the percentage of world population speaking Shona language. Along with this, you can also find the dialects in Shona spoken in various regions under Shona Dialects. Chinese, Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world and is at the top place.

Native Shona Speakers

You will get to know second language speakers of Shona language as well as native Shona Speakers under how many people speak Shona language. There is an estimate that there are almost 8.30 million native speakers of Shona language. Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers and on other hand some languages have small population of native speakers. 16.00 million population speak Shona as second language where Shona is not the native language of the speaker. The number of second language speakers mentioned in how many people speak Shona are those whose native language is minority language of country in which they live. They learn the second language because it is official language of the country where they reside.

Native name of Shona

How many people speak Shona serves you with native name of Shona language. The native name of Shona is chiShona. Native names are the local names for the languages. The native names of the languages are used by the native speakers of that language. The alternative names of Shona are Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru. The German and French names for Shona language is as follows:

• French Name for Shona: shona.
• German Name for Shona: Schona-Sprache.