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Shona
Shona

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Countries

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

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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

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3799
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4614
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

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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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

431
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.30 million128.00 million
0 873
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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)

History

Origin

20th century
1185

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
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Branch

Bantu
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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

Code

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

Shona and Japanese Alphabets

Shona and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Shona and Japanese. In Shona Alphabets there are 37 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Shona and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Shona and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Shona and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Shona and Japanese Speaking population

Shona and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Shona and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Shona and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Shona vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Shona and Japanese Language Codes

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