Languages of Zimbabwe (section Shona)
Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa. The country's main languages are Shona, spoken by over 70% of the...
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Bantu languages (section Lingua franca)
Study in Shona Phonetics University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1931. Relatório do I Seminário sobre a Padronização da Ortografia de Línguas Moçambicanas...
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sobre a cooficialização da língua do "talian", à língua portuguesa, no município de Nova Roma do Sul" O Talian agora é a língua co-oficial de Nova Roma do...
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sounds, in his Ɛpistola del Trissino de le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua italiana ("Trissino's epistle about the letters recently added in the Italian...
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in South Africa and Namibia (Afrikaans, English, German) and are used as lingua francas in Liberia and the former colonies of the United Kingdom (English)...
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the orthography of the Standard Shona of Zimbabwe. Apparently similar to Shona, but lacking the tone patterns of the Shona language, and regarded by its...
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do they speak dominant languages such as Shona and Ndebele but a great population have taken on either Shona or Ndebele surnames. There are families in...
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Ekoti, Nahara, Makonde, Chopi, Chuwabu, Ronga, Kimwani, Nhungwe, Chimanika, Shona, Chiyao, Chichewa, Bitonga, Ngoni, Tswa and Chitewe. The language of the...
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Mbukushu Mbunda Nkoya Nsenga Nyamwanga Nyiha Nyika Pidgin Zulu Sala Settla Shona Simaa Soli Taabwa Tonga Totela Tumbuka Yao Yauma Zambian Sign Language Safaris...
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and Ndau dialect of Shona) as second languages. Many educated Portuguese Mozambicans speak English, as it is an international lingua franca and Mozambique...
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variety of English found in Zimbabwe. While the majority of Zimbabweans speak Shona (75%) and Ndebele (18%) as a first language, standard English is the primary...
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– शेर्पा, ཤེར་པཱ། Official language in: the Indian state of Sikkim Shona – Shona Official language in: Zimbabwe Sicilian – Sicilianu Spoken in: the Italian...
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tongues (such as a mbira thumb piano). Linguaphone comes from the Latin root lingua meaning "tongue", (i.e., a long thin plate that is fixed only at one end)...
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languages although at the same time recognising the English language as its lingua franca. In spatial terms, indigenous (endoglossic) languages are mostly...
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gender, although there is a movement for gender reform in Esperanto.) Ido Lingua Franca Nova Lojban Toki Pona Creoles Haitian Creole Mauritian Creole Sango...
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many Nguni languages has increased the likelihood of Zulu becoming the lingua franca of the eastern half of the country. In the 1994 film The Lion King...
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input from English and a small amount of Afrikaans input. It is used as a lingua franca, mainly in the gold, diamond, coal and copper mining industries in...
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she overhears two men discussing an assassination plot in Ku (the Matoban lingua franca). Silvia runs from the building when the men become aware of her...
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adjacent western Zimbabwe and speak IKalanga, a language closely related to ChiShona...The BaKalanga constitute the largest non-SeTswana-speaking element in...
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000 indigenous languages by some counts, and many creoles, pidgins, and lingua francas.. Niger-Congo alone accounts for the majority of languages (and...
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Kgalagadi (height) Malila (height) Phuthi (right-to-left and left-to-right) Shona Southern Sotho (right-to-left and left-to-right) Northern Sotho (right-to-left...
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variations. However, some languages, like that of the Zezuru who speak a Shona-derived dialect, include articulation so that consonants interrupt the flow...
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Ga-Dangme, Shona, Sesotho, Xhosa, Zulu, Akan, and Mooré. The most widely spoken by the total number of speakers is Swahili, which is used as a lingua franca...
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Individual Living Kernowek cos cos co Corsican Individual Living Corsu; Lingua corsa cpe cpe Creoles and pidgins, English based Collective cpf cpf Creoles...
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legacy of this era are the numerous Portuguese words that have entered Shona, Tsonga and Makonde. Today, mixed race communities exist across the region...
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switching occurs within a word itself, such as at a morpheme boundary. In Shona-English switching one could say, "But ma-day-s a-no a-ya ha-ndi-si ku-mu-on-a...
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Archived from the original on 8 October 2007. Retrieved 10 May 2018. Dalal, Shona; Beunza, Juan Jose; Volmink, Jimmy; Adebamowo, Clement; Bajunirwe, Francis;...
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Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Koisan, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda and Xhosa (officially recognised)...
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List of Wikipedias (redirect from Shona Wikipedia)
Wikipedia isiZulu Zulu Latn zu 11,530 59 2003 (unknown date) Shona Wikipedia Wikipedhiya chiShona Shona Latn sn 11,443 28 Unknown date Meadow Mari Wikipedia Олык...
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including Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. In addition, English serves as the lingua franca of Israel. Though many Jewish languages are not genetically related...
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