Countries
Zimbabwe
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3727
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4621
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Mhoro
Halo
Thank You
Waita zvako
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Manheru
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Masikati
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Mangwanani
Sugeng énjing
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
matur nuwun
Sorry
Ndineurombo
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Ndinokuda
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Karanga
Cirebon
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Arekan
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
16.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
416
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
shona
javanais
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
20th century
450 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indonesian
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Javanese
Language Position
10711
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
jav
ISO 639 2/B
sna
jav
ISO 639 3
sna
jav
ISO 639 6
sna
jav
Glottocode
core1255
java1253
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative