included as Nguni dialect. The 2013 Constitution of Zimbabwe accorded Ndau status as an official language. The mutual intelligibility of Ndau with other Shona...
difficulty learning and speaking the Shona language, particularly the Ndaudialect, while attending school but later managed to learn and speak the language...
related languages—called Shona or Shonic languages by linguists—also includes Ndau (Eastern Shona) and Kalanga (Western Shona). In Guthrie's classification...
Shona language/dialect clusters: Manyika, Karanga, Zezuru, Korekore, and Ndau. The Shona people are grouped according to the dialect of the language...
Brazilian dialects. Some speak Bantu languages (like Xitsonga, Makhuwa, and Ndaudialect of Shona) as second languages. Many educated Portuguese Mozambicans speak...
language and second languages including English in Zimbabwe and Sena, Ndaudialect of Shona, and Portuguese in Mozambique. Gokomere also refers to a school...
and Ndaudialects are listed separately by Ethnologue and are spoken by around 1 million and 2.4 million people, respectively. When Manyika and Ndau are...
the south it is bordered by the Jindwi dialect also known as Chibocha. The Jindwi share borders with the Ndau in Chimanimani stretching down to Chipinge...
the word Nguni), the Ndau and the Malopo. The Ndau spirit possesses the descendants of the Gaza soldiers who had slain the Ndau and taken their wives...
(2003), the languages form a valid node. They are: Shona Eastern Shona group Ndau (S.15) Central Shona group Korekore (S.11) and Tawara Zezuru (S.12) Manyika...
Manyika, Ndau, Korekore. The process of unification has, in fact begun . . . [uniting] neighbouring sub-dialects under the main dialects." As a result...
languages, it is tonal and monosyllabic. Linguists in China consider the dialect spoken in Changdong, Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi to be the standard...
meaning of churches. By 1918, they had finished the New Testament in four dialects: Ndau, Manyika, Zezuru, and Karanga.[citation needed] The Louws and some Sotho-speaking...
others, 1978:306-308). The Gaza settled in Ndau country, east of the Sabi, and the Ndau language, a Shona dialect, contains a wealth of Zulu words inherited...
pidgin Fanagalo, Sesotho, Tsonga, Ronga, the Mzimba dialect of Tumbuka and more recently to Ndau and urban varieties of Pedi, where the spread of clicks...
of the languages neighboring Shona, such as at least for some speakers of Ndau and Tonga. The Tuu and Kx'a languages also have glottalized nasal clicks...
dominant in the northern part of the country — the Sena and Shona (mostly Ndau and Manyika) are prominent in the Zambezi valley, and the Shangaan (Tsonga)...
to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically includes aspects...
Zimbabwe), and Shona with less than 10 million speakers (if Manyika and Ndau are included), while Sotho-Tswana languages (Sotho, Tswana and Pedi) have...
Africa. Other ethnic groups include Venda, Tonga, Tsonga, Kalanga, Sotho, Ndau, Nambya, Tswana, Xhosa and Lozi. Minority ethnic groups include white Zimbabweans...
Pendau (Ndaoe, Ndau), or Umalasa, is a Celebic language of Sulawesi in Indonesia spoken by the approximately 4000 Pendau people who live in Central Sulawesi...
Hoa), so named because of their bright, colorful embroidery work (called pa ndau or paj ntaub, literally "flower cloth"). When Western authors first came...
expressed by word order. E.g. in Rongga, there is strict SVO word order: jara ndau kenda ja'o (lit. 'horse that kick I') 'that horse kick(ed) me'. Possession...
the MaUngwe people use the chiUngwe. In Chipinge District the Ndau people use chiNdau and the Machangana/ Shangaani people use chiChangana/ Shangaan...
Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over 3,000. Nigeria...
basis". Not designated but meets legal definition Refers to the Tjwao dialect See Zimbabwean sign languages In the United States of America, English...
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