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Javanese

Shona
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Countries

Countries

Indonesia
Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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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

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2737
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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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
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

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

Dialects

Dialect 1

Pekalongan
Hwesa

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Cirebon
Karanga

Where They Speak

Indonesia
southern Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.001,100,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Arekan
Zezuru

Where They Speak

Indonesia
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.0016.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

164
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

82.00 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.25 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

76.00 million8.30 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

82.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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

Code

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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Javanese and Shona Alphabets

Javanese and Shona Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Javanese and Shona. In Javanese Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Shona Alphabets there are 37 letters. To learn Javanese and Shona languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Javanese and Shona languages. The Javanese phonology consist Javanese vowels and Javanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Javanese greetings vs Shona greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Javanese and Shona are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Javanese and Shona Speaking population

Javanese and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which Javanese and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of Javanese and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 % 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 Javanese and Shona on Javanese vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Javanese and Shona Language Codes

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