Countries
Zimbabwe
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3752
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4636
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Mhoro
Namaskar
Thank You
Waita zvako
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
kaso assa?
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Manheru
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Masikati
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
Mangwanani
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
Chike
Sorry
Ndineurombo
Maf kor
Bye
bye
Adeus
I Love You
Ndinokuda
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Antruz
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Goa
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Karanga
Not present
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
-
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Not present
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
-
How Many People Speak
16.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
shona
konkani
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Shona people
Konkanis
Origin
20th century
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Kokani
Language Position
10723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
kok
ISO 639 2/B
sna
kok
ISO 639 3
sna
kok
ISO 639 6
sna
kok
Glottocode
core1255
goan1235
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-