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Shona
Shona

Croatian
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Countries

Countries

Zimbabwe
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

19
0 46
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National Language

Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Austria

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By

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Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

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.
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

Similar To

Kalanga and Nambya Language
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

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Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3730
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4625
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

43
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Mhoro
bok

Thank You

Waita zvako
hvala

How Are You?

Wakadini zvako?
kako si

Good Night

Urare zvakanaka
laku noć

Good Evening

Manheru
dobra večer

Good Afternoon

Masikati
dobar dan

Good Morning

Mangwanani
dobro jutro

Please

Ndinokumbirawo
molim

Sorry

Ndineurombo
Oprostite

Bye

bye
Doviđenja

I Love You

Ndinokuda
Volim te

Excuse Me

Pamusoro
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Hwesa
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
Croatia

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Karanga
Chakavian

Where They Speak

southern Zimbabwe
Croatia

How Many People Speak

1,100,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Zezuru
Shtokavian

Where They Speak

central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

16.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

479
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million89.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %89.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.30 million5.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million1.25 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

chiShona
hrvatski

Alternative Names

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

French Name

shona
croate

German Name

Schona-Sprache
Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[ʃoːna]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Shona people
Croats

History

Origin

20th century
9th century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
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Branch

Bantu
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Shona and Middle Shona
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Shona
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

10723
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Shona
Croatian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sn
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sna
hrv

ISO 639 2/B

sna
hrv

ISO 639 3

sna
hrv

ISO 639 6

sna
hrv

Glottocode

core1255
croa1245

Linguasphere

99-AUT-a
part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Shona and Croatian Alphabets

Shona and Croatian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Shona and Croatian. In Shona Alphabets there are 37 letters while in Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Shona and Croatian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Shona and Croatian languages. The Shona phonology consist Shona vowels and Shona consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Shona greetings vs Croatian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Shona and Croatian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Shona and Croatian Speaking population

Shona and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Shona and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Shona and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Shona and Croatian on Shona vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Shona and Croatian Language Codes

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