Countries
Indonesia
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2737
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2146
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
Mhoro
Thank You
matur nuwun
Waita zvako
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
Manheru
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
Masikati
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
Mangwanani
Please
matur nuwun
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
Ndineurombo
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
bye
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Karanga
Where They Speak
Indonesia
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Indonesia
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
164
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million8.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
chiShona
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
javanais
shona
German Name
Javanisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Shona people
Origin
450 AD
20th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Javanese
Standard Shona
Language Position
11107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
sna
ISO 639 2/B
jav
sna
ISO 639 3
jav
sna
ISO 639 6
jav
sna
Glottocode
java1253
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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