Countries
Zimbabwe
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3726
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
524
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4623
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Mhoro
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Waita zvako
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Manheru
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Masikati
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Mangwanani
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Ndineurombo
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ndinokuda
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Wu
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Zezuru
Yue
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
16.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
410
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
chiShona
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
shona
chinois
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Han
Origin
20th century
1250 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Standard Chinese
Language Position
1071
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
zho
ISO 639 2/B
sna
chi
ISO 639 3
sna
zho
ISO 639 6
sna
zho
Glottocode
core1255
sini1245
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating