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Shona
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shona
English
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Shona.wav Southern England
en /ˈʃəʊnə/ /ˈʃoʊnə/
en əʊnə 2
Etymology 1
Proper noun
A language spoken in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
en 2022 w:NoViolet Bulawayo Glory Chatto & Windus 225 I didn’t know anyone who spoke fluent Shona in the area.
Translations
language
Armenian: hy շոնա
Bengali: bn শোনা ভাষা
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 修納語 Xiūnà yǔ, cmn 紹納語 Shàonà yǔ
Dutch: nl Shona n
Faroese: fo sjona n
Finnish: fi shona
French: fr shona m
Kazakh: kk шона тілі
Khmer: km ឝុណា shunɑɑ
Korean: ko 쇼나어
Portuguese: pt xona
Russian: ru шо́на m
Shona: sn chiShona, sn Chishona
Swahili: sw Kishona
Turkish: tr Şona dili
See also
sn
Wikipedia article on the language Shona
Further reading
1 sn sna
sna
Noun
s Shona
A member of the Bantu tribes who speak Shona.
en 2015 Khoza Mduduzi The West Stole Africa's Wealth It's not relevant for the purpose of my discussion who got to Zimbabwe first between the Shonas and the Ndebeles.
Etymology 2
Scottish Anglicized form of Seonag ( =Joan) and an American variant of Shauna.
Proper noun
en female Scottish Gaelic.
Derived terms
en Shonda
Anagrams
en ahnos Noah's Noahs has on nasho
en 2-syllable words
en Languages
Dutch
Pronunciation
nl /ˈʃoː.naː/
nl Nl-Shona.ogg
nl Sho na
nl oːnaː
Proper noun
n
en Shona African language