Countries
Zimbabwe
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
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Dzongkha Development Commission
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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
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Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3795
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4630
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Mhoro
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Waita zvako
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Manheru
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Masikati
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Mangwanani
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Ndineurombo
Tsip maza
Bye
bye
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Ndinokuda
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Laya
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Lunana
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Zezuru
Adap
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
16.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
chiShona
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
shona
dzongkha
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Ngalop people
Origin
20th century
17th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Dzongkha
Language Position
10731
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
sna
dzo
ISO 639 3
sna
dzo
ISO 639 6
sna
dzo
Glottocode
core1255
nucl1307
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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