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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Old German Language
Derived From
-
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3752
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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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
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Mhoro
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
Waita zvako
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
Manheru
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
Masikati
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
Mangwanani
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
Ndineurombo
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
Ndinokuda
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Not present
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
-
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Not present
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
-
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Zezuru
Not present
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
-
How Many People Speak
16.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
40
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
chiShona
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
shona
sanskrit
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
20th century
2000 B.C.
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
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Sanskrit
Language Position
10723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
-
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
san
ISO 639 2/B
sna
san
ISO 639 3
sna
san
ISO 639 6
sna
san
Glottocode
core1255
sans1269
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic