Countries
India
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5237
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3646
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Mhoro
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
Manheru
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
Masikati
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Mangwanani
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Ndineurombo
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
bye
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Not present
Hwesa
Where They Speak
-
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
140,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Karanga
Where They Speak
-
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
140,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Zezuru
Where They Speak
-
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
140,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
04
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
14.10 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
14.10 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
sanskrit
shona
German Name
Sanskrit
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Shona people
Origin
2000 B.C.
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Standard Shona
Language Position
23107
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
sna
ISO 639 2/B
san
sna
ISO 639 3
san
sna
ISO 639 6
san
sna
Glottocode
sans1269
core1255
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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