Countries
Turkey, Uzbekistan
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2937
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2446
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Salom
Mhoro
Thank You
Rakhmat
Waita zvako
How Are You?
Qalay siz?
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
Hayirli tun
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
Hayirli kech
Manheru
Good Afternoon
Hayirli kun
Masikati
Good Morning
Hayirli tong
Mangwanani
Please
Iltimos
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
Kechiring!
Ndineurombo
Bye
Xayr
bye
I Love You
Sizni sevaman
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
Iltimos! Menga qarang
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Tashkent
Hwesa
Where They Speak
-
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
32,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Afghan
Karanga
Where They Speak
-
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
32,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ferghana
Zezuru
Where They Speak
-
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
32,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.39 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
26.00 million8.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
32.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
ouszbek
shona
German Name
Usbekisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[oʻzbek]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Uzbek
Shona people
Origin
9th–12th centuries AD
20th century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Southestern(Chagatai)
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Chagatay
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Uzbek
Standard Shona
Language Position
53107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Uzbek
Signed Shona
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
uz
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uzb
sna
ISO 639 2/B
uzb
sna
ISO 639 3
uzb
sna
ISO 639 6
uzb
sna
Glottocode
uzbe1247
core1255
Linguasphere
No data available
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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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