Countries
Zimbabwe
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3728
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4620
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Mhoro
您好
Thank You
Waita zvako
谢谢
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
你好吗?
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
晚安
Good Evening
Manheru
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Masikati
下午好
Good Morning
Mangwanani
早上好
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
请
Sorry
Ndineurombo
遗憾
Bye
bye
再见
I Love You
Ndinokuda
我爱你
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
原谅我
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Xiguan
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
16.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
shona
cantonais
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Han Chinese
Origin
20th century
17th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
1071
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
sn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
yue
ISO 639 2/B
sna
yue
ISO 639 3
sna
No data available
ISO 639 6
sna
yue
Glottocode
core1255
cant1236
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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