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
-
-
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.
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3742
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4631
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Mhoro
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
Waita zvako
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
Manheru
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Masikati
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
Mangwanani
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
Ndineurombo
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
Ndinokuda
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Baleswari
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
India
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Ganjami
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
India
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Kosli
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
India
How Many People Speak
16.00520,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million33.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
chiShona
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
shona
oriya
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Odias
Origin
20th century
3 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
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Standard Odia
Language Position
10732
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sn
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
ori
ISO 639 2/B
sna
ori
ISO 639 3
sna
ori
ISO 639 6
sna
ori
Glottocode
core1255
macr1269
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-