Countries
Zimbabwe
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
-
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3736
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4628
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Mhoro
kedụ
Thank You
Waita zvako
dalụ
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Manheru
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Masikati
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Mangwanani
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
Biko
Sorry
Ndineurombo
Ndo
Bye
bye
Kachifo
I Love You
Ndinokuda
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Enuani
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Karanga
Ngwa
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Not present
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
-
How Many People Speak
16.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
420
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
igbo
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Ibo
French Name
shona
igbo
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Igbo people
Origin
20th century
30th Century BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Kwa
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Standard Igbo
Language Position
10757
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
sna
ibo
ISO 639 3
sna
ibo
ISO 639 6
sna
ibo
Glottocode
core1255
nucl1417
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative