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Shona
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Countries

Countries

Zimbabwe
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

133
0 46
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National Language

Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa

Regulated By

-
-

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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Kalanga and Nambya Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3726
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4621
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

47
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Mhoro
Hello

Thank You

Waita zvako
Thank you

How Are You?

Wakadini zvako?
How are you?

Good Night

Urare zvakanaka
Good Night

Good Evening

Manheru
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

Masikati
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

Mangwanani
Good Morning

Please

Ndinokumbirawo
Please

Sorry

Ndineurombo
Sorry

Bye

bye
Bye

I Love You

Ndinokuda
I love you

Excuse Me

Pamusoro
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Hwesa
American English

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
United States of America

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Karanga
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

southern Zimbabwe
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

1,100,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Zezuru
Welsh English

Where They Speak

central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

16.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

4188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.30 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

chiShona
English

Alternative Names

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

French Name

shona
anglais

German Name

Schona-Sprache
Englisch

Pronunciation

[ʃoːna]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Shona people
English people

History

Origin

20th century
5th Century AD

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
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Standard Shona
Standard English

Language Position

1073
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Shona
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sn
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sna
eng

ISO 639 2/B

sna
eng

ISO 639 3

sna
eng

ISO 639 6

sna
engs

Glottocode

core1255
stan1293

Linguasphere

99-AUT-a
52-ABA

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, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Shona and English Alphabets

Shona and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Shona and English. In Shona Alphabets there are 37 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Shona and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Shona and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Shona and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Shona and English Speaking population

Shona and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Shona and English languages can be compared. The total count of Shona and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Shona vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Shona and English Language Codes

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