Countries
Zimbabwe
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Regulated By
-
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3732
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4620
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Mhoro
Sveiki
Thank You
Waita zvako
Ačiū
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
Labanakt
Good Evening
Manheru
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Masikati
Laba diena
Good Morning
Mangwanani
Labas rytas
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
Prašom
Sorry
Ndineurombo
atsiprašau
Bye
bye
Ate
I Love You
Ndinokuda
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Curonian
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
16.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
410
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
shona
lituanien
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Lithuanians
Origin
20th century
c. 1503
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Lithuanian
Language Position
10744
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
lit
ISO 639 2/B
sna
lit
ISO 639 3
sna
lit
ISO 639 6
sna
lit
Glottocode
core1255
lith1251
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic