Countries
Zimbabwe
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4628
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Mhoro
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Waita zvako
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Manheru
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Masikati
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Mangwanani
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Ndineurombo
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Ndinokuda
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Kartlian
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Kartli
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Zezuru
Pshavian
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
16.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
420
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.64 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million4.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
chiShona
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
shona
géorgien
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Georgians
Origin
20th century
5th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Southern
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Modern Georgian
Language Position
107120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
sn
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
kat
ISO 639 2/B
sna
geo
ISO 639 3
sna
kat
ISO 639 6
sna
kat
Glottocode
core1255
nucl1302
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic