Countries
Zimbabwe
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
-
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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.
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Malay language
Derived From
-
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3726
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4619
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
47
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Mhoro
Halo
Thank You
Waita zvako
Terima kasih
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
Apa kabar?
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
Manheru
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
Masikati
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
Mangwanani
Selamat Pagi
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
mohon Untuk
Sorry
Ndineurombo
maaf
Bye
bye
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Ndinokuda
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
Permisi
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Sundanese
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Balinese
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.003,300,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
16.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
446
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
shona
indonésien
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Indonesians
Origin
20th century
7th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indonesian
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Indonesian
Language Position
10756
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
ind
ISO 639 2/B
sna
ind
ISO 639 3
sna
ind
ISO 639 6
sna
ind
Glottocode
core1255
indo1316
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative