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Countries

Countries

Japan
Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Africa

Minority Language

Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • 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

Korean Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9937
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1446
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

54
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Mhoro

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Waita zvako

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Wakadini zvako?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Urare zvakanaka

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Manheru

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Masikati

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Mangwanani

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Ndinokumbirawo

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Ndineurombo

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
bye

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Ndinokuda

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Pamusoro

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Hwesa

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Karanga

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
southern Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.001,100,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Zezuru

Where They Speak

kansai
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0016.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

314
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million8.30 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
chiShona

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru

French Name

japonais
shona

German Name

Japanisch
Schona-Sprache

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ʃoːna]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Shona people

History

Origin

1185
20th century

Language Family

Japonic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

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Benue-Congo

Branch

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Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Shona and Middle Shona

Standard Forms

Japanese
Standard Shona

Language Position

8107
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Signed Shona

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
sn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
sna

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
sna

ISO 639 3

jpn
sna

ISO 639 6

jpn
sna

Glottocode

nucl1643
core1255

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
99-AUT-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Japanese and Shona Alphabets

Japanese and Shona Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Shona. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Shona Alphabets there are 37 letters. To learn Japanese and Shona languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Shona languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Shona greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Shona are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Shona Speaking population

Japanese and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Shona on Japanese vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Shona Language Codes

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