Countries
Zimbabwe
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3748
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
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
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Mhoro
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Waita zvako
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Manheru
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Masikati
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Mangwanani
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
कृपया
Sorry
Ndineurombo
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ndinokuda
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Doteli
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Nepal
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Karanga
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Nepal
How Many People Speak
16.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
412
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
shona
népalais
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
20th century
19 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Bantu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Nepali
Language Position
10759
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sn
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
nep
ISO 639 2/B
sna
nep
ISO 639 3
sna
npi
ISO 639 6
sna
nep
Glottocode
core1255
nepa1254
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative