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Shona
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Countries

Countries

Zimbabwe
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

17
0 46
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National Language

Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

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Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

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

Derived From

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Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3726
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

469
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

46
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Mhoro
hallo

Thank You

Waita zvako
Danke

How Are You?

Wakadini zvako?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Urare zvakanaka
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Manheru
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Masikati
guten Tag

Good Morning

Mangwanani
guten Morgen

Please

Ndinokumbirawo
bitte

Sorry

Ndineurombo
Verzeihung

Bye

bye
Tschüs

I Love You

Ndinokuda
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Pamusoro
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Hwesa
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Karanga
Swabian German

Where They Speak

southern Zimbabwe
Germany

How Many People Speak

1,100,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Zezuru
Texas German

Where They Speak

central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Texas

How Many People Speak

16.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

428
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.30 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

chiShona
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

shona
allemand

German Name

Schona-Sprache
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ʃoːna]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Shona people
Germans

History

Origin

20th century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Germanic

Branch

Bantu
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Shona and Middle Shona
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Shona
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

1079
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Shona
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sn
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sna
deu

ISO 639 2/B

sna
ger

ISO 639 3

sna
deu

ISO 639 6

sna
deus

Glottocode

core1255
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

99-AUT-a
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Shona and German Alphabets

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

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

Shona and German Speaking population

Shona and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Shona and German languages can be compared. The total count of Shona and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Shona vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Shona and German Language Codes

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