Shona
Introduction
The shona (or chiShona) is a language of the Zimbabwe. This term is also used to identify the populations of the south of Africa speaking one about the languages of the shona group.
The shona itself is an official language of Zimbabwe, the other official languages being the Ndébélé and the English. More than 80% of the population of Zimbabwe practice the language shona, that is to say approximately 6 million people (1989). The shona is also spoken with the Mozambique, in Zambia and with the Botswana. The full number of speakers is at least of 7 million (UBS 1990).
The orthography and the grammar of the shona were codified at the beginning of the 20th century and were fixed in the years 1950. The shona is taught at the school, but is not used as language of teaching of the other disciplines. It has a literature, and there exist bilingual dictionaries shona and dictionaries (mainly shona-English). The modern shona is based on the dialect spoken by the ethnos group Zezuru about the center about Zimbabwe.
The language shona belongs to the big family of the Langues bantoues.
Basic lexicon
See too
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