Shona
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Shona is a major Bantu language of Zimbabwe, widely spoken by the Shona people and used in education, media, and government.
Aliases (4)
- Shona people ×9
- Shona language ×3
- ChiShona ×1
- Shona languages ×1
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bantu language
→
natural language → |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Northern Ndebele
→
Xhosa → Zulu → |
| geneticAffinity |
Niger–Congo languages
→
|
| hasAlternativeName |
ChiShona
→
|
| hasDialects |
Karanga
→
Korekore → Manyika → Ndau → Zezuru → |
| hasGrammarFeature |
agglutinative morphology
→
subject–verb–object word order → |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
Afrikaans
→
English → Portuguese → |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
five-vowel system
→
noun class system → tonal language → |
| hasStandardVariety |
Zezuru-based standard Shona
→
|
| ISO639-1Code |
sn
→
|
| ISO639-2Code |
sna
→
|
| ISO639-3Code |
sna
→
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| languageFamily |
Bantu languages
→
|
| officialStatus |
national language of Zimbabwe
→
|
| primaryEthnicGroup |
Shona people
→
|
| region |
Southern Africa
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|
| spokenIn |
Botswana
→
Mozambique → Zambia → Zimbabwe → |
| standardizedIn |
20th century
→
|
| subfamily |
Southern Bantu languages
→
|
| taughtAt |
some universities outside Zimbabwe
→
universities in Zimbabwe → |
| usedFor |
literature
→
primary school instruction in Zimbabwe → radio broadcasting → religious services → television broadcasting → |
| usedIn |
education in Zimbabwe
→
government communication in Zimbabwe → media in Zimbabwe → music and popular culture in Zimbabwe → online media in Zimbabwe → print newspapers in Zimbabwe → |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
→
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