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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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science fiction novel in the Shona language, MunaHacha Maive Nei? Musodza states that he began to write science-fiction in ChiShona when he was 10, when he...
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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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with input from English and a small amount of Afrikaans. It is used as a lingua franca, mainly in the gold, diamond, coal and copper mining industries in...
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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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List of ISO 639-2 codes (category Articles containing Shona-language text)
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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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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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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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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Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s "tongue, speech, language" through Latin lingua, "language; tongue", and Old French language. The word is sometimes used...
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List of Wikipedias (redirect from Shona Wikipedia)
Vikipedya en lingua Judeo-Espanyola Judaeo-Spanish Latn lad 3,794 23 Unknown date Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia Vicipedia en lingua franca nova Lingua Franca...
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animal hide and skins for clothing. The Ndau in central Mozambique and the Shona mix hide with barkcloth and cotton cloth. Cotton cloth is referred to as...
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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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Hélène; Kosmala, Loulou; Masuga, Katy; Morgenstern, Aliyah. In Cédric Sarré, Shona Whyte (Eds), New developments in ESP teaching and learning research. pp...
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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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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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Punjabi, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Shona, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Tigrinya, Chechen, Turkish...
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