Countries
Zimbabwe
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
17
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Azerbaijan, Gambia
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
-
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
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.
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Turkish
Derived From
-
Osmanly language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3732
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4623
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Mhoro
Salam
Thank You
Waita zvako
Təşəkkür edirəm
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
necəsən
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
yaxşı gecə
Good Evening
Manheru
Axşamınız xeyir
Good Afternoon
Masikati
Günortanız Xeyir
Good Morning
Mangwanani
Sabahınız xeyir
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
lütfən
Sorry
Ndineurombo
üzr
Bye
bye
xudafiz
I Love You
Ndinokuda
Mən səni sevirəm
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
Bağışlayın
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Derbent
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Russia
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0037,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Karanga
Gazakh
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.0037,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Baku
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
16.0037.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
433
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million26.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.34 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
French Name
shona
azéri
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Aserbeidschanisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Azerbaijani
Origin
20th century
16th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Turkic
Branch
Bantu
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Azerbaijani
Language Position
10738
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Signed Azerbaijani
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sn
az
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
aze
ISO 639 2/B
sna
aze
ISO 639 3
sna
aze
ISO 639 6
sna
aze
Glottocode
core1255
azer1255
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative