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Preferred term

snaShona  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Shona (or chiShona) is a Bantu language, native to the Shona people of Zimbabwe and southern Zambia; the term is also used to identify peoples who speak one of the Shona language dialects: Zezuru, Karanga, Manyika, Ndau and Korekore. (Some researchers include Kalanga: others recognise Kalanga as a distinct language in its own right.) Shona is a principal language of Zimbabwe, along with Ndebele and the official business language, English. Shona is spoken by a large percentage of the people in Zimbabwe. Other countries that host Shona language speakers are Zambia and Botswana and Mozambique.

Entry terms

  • Shona language

ISO 639-1 code

  • sn

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • sna

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • sna

ISO 639-3 code

  • sna

Notation

  • sna

In other languages

  • Shona

    French

  • shona
  • Shona

    German

  • shona

    Italian

  • Lingua shona
  • shona

    Portuguese

  • Língua chona
  • shona

    Spanish

  • Idioma shona

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/sna

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