Countries
Zimbabwe
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3723
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4614
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Mhoro
Kumno
Thank You
Waita zvako
Khublei
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
thia sukh
Good Evening
Manheru
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
Masikati
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
Mangwanani
khublei
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
Sngewbha
Sorry
Ndineurombo
Map
Bye
bye
khublei
I Love You
Ndinokuda
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
map a nga
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
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How Many People Speak
11,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Nonglung
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
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How Many People Speak
1,100,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
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How Many People Speak
16.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
45
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
shona
khasi
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Khasi people
Origin
20th century
1200 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
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Branch
Bantu
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Khasi
Language Position
10740
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
kha
ISO 639 2/B
sna
kha
ISO 639 3
sna
kha
ISO 639 6
sna
kha
Glottocode
core1255
khas1269
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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