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Shona
Shona

Finnish
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Countries

Countries

Zimbabwe
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

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Institute for the Languages of Finland

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.
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.

Similar To

Kalanga and Nambya Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3729
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4613
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

44
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Mhoro
Moi

Thank You

Waita zvako
Kiitos

How Are You?

Wakadini zvako?
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

Urare zvakanaka
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

Manheru
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

Masikati
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

Mangwanani
Hyvää huomenta

Please

Ndinokumbirawo
haluta

Sorry

Ndineurombo
Anteeksi

Bye

bye
Heippa

I Love You

Ndinokuda
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

Pamusoro
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Hwesa
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
Finland

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Karanga
Rauma

Where They Speak

southern Zimbabwe
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

1,100,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Zezuru
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

16.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

421
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.30 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

chiShona
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

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

French Name

shona
finnois

German Name

Schona-Sprache
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[ʃoːna]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Shona people
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

20th century
1543

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Finno-Ugric

Branch

Bantu
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Shona and Middle Shona
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Standard Shona
standard Finnish

Language Position

10722
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Shona
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sn
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sna
fin

ISO 639 2/B

sna
fin

ISO 639 3

sna
fin

ISO 639 6

sna
fin

Glottocode

core1255
finn1318

Linguasphere

99-AUT-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Agglutinative, Synthetic

Shona and Finnish Alphabets

Shona and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Shona and Finnish. In Shona Alphabets there are 37 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Shona and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Shona and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Shona and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Shona and Finnish Speaking population

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

Shona and Finnish Language Codes

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