Countries
Zimbabwe
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
-
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
-
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3752
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4640
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Mhoro
خوش آمديد
Thank You
Waita zvako
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
Manheru
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
Masikati
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
Mangwanani
گڈ مارننگ
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
Ndineurombo
معاف کرنا
Bye
bye
الوداع
I Love You
Ndinokuda
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
India
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Karanga
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
India
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Rekhta
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
South Asia
How Many People Speak
16.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Bihari
French Name
shona
ourdou
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Urdu
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
20th century
12th Century CE
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
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
10720
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
urd
ISO 639 2/B
sna
urd
ISO 639 3
sna
urd
ISO 639 6
sna
urd
Glottocode
core1255
urdu1245
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
59-AAF-q
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional