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Countries

Countries

Zimbabwe
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

13
0 46
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National Language

Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

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Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Kalanga and Nambya Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

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Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3732
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4623
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

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Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

46
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Mhoro
سلام

Thank You

Waita zvako
متشکرم

How Are You?

Wakadini zvako?
چطور هستید?

Good Night

Urare zvakanaka
شب بخیر

Good Evening

Manheru
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

Masikati
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

Mangwanani
صبح به خیر

Please

Ndinokumbirawo
لطفا

Sorry

Ndineurombo
متاسف

Bye

bye
خدا حافظ

I Love You

Ndinokuda
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

Pamusoro
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Hwesa
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Karanga
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

southern Zimbabwe
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

1,100,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Zezuru
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

16.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

412
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.30 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

chiShona
فارسی

Alternative Names

Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

shona
persan

German Name

Schona-Sprache
Persisch

Pronunciation

[ʃoːna]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Shona people
Persian people

History

Origin

20th century
1500 BC

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Bantu
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Shona and Middle Shona
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Standard Shona
Persian

Language Position

10723
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Shona
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sn
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sna
fas

ISO 639 2/B

sna
per

ISO 639 3

sna
pes

ISO 639 6

sna
pers

Glottocode

core1255
fars1254

Linguasphere

99-AUT-a
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Synthetic

Shona and Persian Alphabets

Shona and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Shona and Persian. In Shona Alphabets there are 37 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Shona and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Shona and Persian 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 Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Shona and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Shona and Persian Speaking population

Shona and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Shona and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Shona and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Shona vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Shona and Persian Language Codes

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