Countries
Zimbabwe
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
111
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
-
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3729
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4621
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
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Hello
Mhoro
Merhaba
Thank You
Waita zvako
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
Nasılsın?
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
Manheru
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
Masikati
Tünaydın
Good Morning
Mangwanani
günaydın
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
lütfen
Sorry
Ndineurombo
üzgünüm
Bye
bye
Hoşçakal
I Love You
Ndinokuda
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Karanga
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Gagauz
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
16.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
49
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
shona
turc
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Turkish
Origin
20th century
c. 1350
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Turkic
Branch
Bantu
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
10719
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
tur
ISO 639 2/B
sna
tur
ISO 639 3
sna
tur
ISO 639 6
sna
tur
Glottocode
core1255
nucl1301
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic