Countries
Zimbabwe
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau
Regulated By
-
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3799
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4614
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Mhoro
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Waita zvako
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Manheru
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Masikati
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Mangwanani
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Ndineurombo
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Ndinokuda
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Hakata
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Zezuru
Kansai
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
kansai
How Many People Speak
16.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
431
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
chiShona
日本語
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Nihongo
French Name
shona
japonais
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
20th century
1185
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Japanese
Language Position
1078
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
sna
jpn
ISO 639 3
sna
jpn
ISO 639 6
sna
jpn
Glottocode
core1255
nucl1643
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative, Synthetic