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Zimbabwe Youth Organizations Network
upright=1.22, Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east. The capital and largest city is Harare, and the second largest is Bulawayo. A country of roughly 16.6 million people as per 2024 census, Zimbabwe's largest ethnic group are the Shona, who make up 80% of the population, followed by the Northern Ndebele and other smaller minorities. Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most common. Zimbabwe is a member of the United Nations, the Southern African Development Community, the African Union, and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. The region was long inhabited by the San, and was settled by Bantu peoples around 2,000 years ago. Beginning in the 11th century the Shona people constructed the city of Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shona Language
Shona ( ; ) is a Bantu language spoken by the Shona people of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The term is variously used to collectively describe all the Central Shonic varieties (comprising Zezuru, Manyika, Korekore and Karanga or Ndau) or specifically Standard Shona, a variety codified in the mid-20th century. Using the broader term, the language is spoken by over 14 million people. The larger group of historically related languages—called Shona languages, Shona or Shonic languages by linguists—also includes Ndau dialect, Ndau (Eastern Shona) and Kalanga language, Kalanga (Western Shona). In Malcolm Guthrie, Guthrie's classification of Bantu languages, zone S.10 designates the Shonic group. Similar languages Shona is closely related to Ndau dialect, Ndau, Kalanga language, Kalanga and is related to Tonga language (Zambia and Zimbabwe), Tonga, Chewa language, Chewa, Tumbuka language, Tumbuka, Tsonga language, Tsonga and Venda language, Venda. Ndau and Kalanga are former diale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
