Countries
Zimbabwe
Turkey, Uzbekistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Middle East
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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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.
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3729
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4624
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Mhoro
Salom
Thank You
Waita zvako
Rakhmat
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
Qalay siz?
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
Hayirli tun
Good Evening
Manheru
Hayirli kech
Good Afternoon
Masikati
Hayirli kun
Good Morning
Mangwanani
Hayirli tong
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
Iltimos
Sorry
Ndineurombo
Kechiring!
Bye
bye
Xayr
I Love You
Ndinokuda
Sizni sevaman
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
Iltimos! Menga qarang
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Tashkent
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
-
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0032,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Afghan
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
-
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.0032,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Zezuru
Ferghana
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
-
How Many People Speak
16.0032,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million26.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million32.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
chiShona
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
shona
ouszbek
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Usbekisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[oʻzbek]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Uzbek
Origin
20th century
9th–12th centuries AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Turkic
Branch
Bantu
Southestern(Chagatai)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Chagatay
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Uzbek
Language Position
10753
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Signed Uzbek
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sn
uz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
uzb
ISO 639 2/B
sna
uzb
ISO 639 3
sna
uzb
ISO 639 6
sna
uzb
Glottocode
core1255
uzbe1247
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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