Shona language
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shona-language-163-3914260
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Shona language
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Shona is a Bantu language of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. The term is variously used to collectively describe all the Central Shonic varieties or specifically Standard Shona, a variety codified in the mid-20th century. Using the broader term, the language is spoken by over 14,000,000 people. The larger group of historically related languages—called Shona or Shonic languages by linguists—also includes Ndau and Kalanga. In Guthrie's classification of Bantu languages, zone S.10 designates the Shon
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Bantu language of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, parts of Zambia and South Africa
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shona_language
date created:
2003-10-17T01:38:02Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T07:30:03Z
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