Shona

E28785

Shona is a major Bantu language of Zimbabwe, widely spoken by the Shona people and used in education, media, and government.

All labels observed (11)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Northern Ndebele
Xhosa
Zulu
geneticAffinity Niger–Congo languages
hasAlternativeName Shona
surface form: ChiShona
hasDialects Karanga
Korekore
Manyika
Ndau
Zezuru
hasGrammarFeature agglutinative morphology
subject–verb–object word order
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Afrikaans
English
Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system
noun class system
tonal language
hasStandardVariety Zezuru-based standard Shona
ISO639-1Code sn
ISO639-2Code sna
ISO639-3Code sna
languageFamily Bantu languages
officialStatus national language of Zimbabwe
primaryEthnicGroup Shona self-linksurface differs
surface form: Shona people
region Southern Africa
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

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (168)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

southeastern Zimbabwe hasLanguage Shona
subject surface form: Southeastern Zimbabwe
Narrow Bantu includes Shona
this entity surface form: Shona language
Ndau subfamilyOf Shona
this entity surface form: Shona language cluster
Ndau closelyRelatedTo Shona
Ndau partOf Shona
this entity surface form: Shona languages
Ndau languageGroup Shona
Ndau isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Shona
this entity surface form: Shona (standard)
Ndau sharesVocabularyWith Shona
Robert Mugabe ethnicGroup Shona
Kalanga subgroupOf Shona
this entity surface form: Shona languages
Kalanga closelyRelatedTo Shona
this entity surface form: Shona language
Tonga people neighboringGroups Shona
this entity surface form: Shona people
Hwange town languageSpoken Shona
subject surface form: Hwange
Proto-Bantu ancestorOf Shona
this entity surface form: Shona language
Southern Bantu languages arealGroupWith Shona
this entity surface form: Shona languages
Manyika partOf Shona
this entity surface form: Shona language
Manyika subFamily Shona
this entity surface form: Shona language
Manyika hasAlternativeName Shona
this entity surface form: Manyika Shona
Manyika closelyRelatedTo Shona
this entity surface form: Standard Shona
Korekore partOf Shona
this entity surface form: Shona language
Korekore subfamily Shona
Korekore dialectOf Shona
Zezuru subdivisionOf Shona
this entity surface form: Shona language
Zezuru languageBranch Shona
Zezuru partOf Shona
this entity surface form: Central Shona dialect cluster
Umguza languageUsed Shona
Midlands languageSpoken Shona
subject surface form: Midlands Province
Karanga subdivisionOf Shona
this entity surface form: Shona language
Karanga mutuallyIntelligibleWith Shona
this entity surface form: Standard Shona
Rozvi Empire language Shona
Rozvi state language Shona
Shona states languageFamily Shona
this entity surface form: Shona languages
Butua Kingdom language Shona
Mutapa Kingdom language Shona
this entity surface form: Shona language