绍纳语

绍纳语

[编辑] Shona, or chiShona, is an African language spoken by nearly 80 percent of people in Zimbabwe. There are clusters of Shona people or Shona speaking people in Botswana and Mozambique, and in almost every country that shares borders with Zimbabwe. Shona people had no input in drawing these borders.

[编辑] There are many regional Shona dialects. Shona language presented here has been limited to Shona words and sample sentences commonly used in the four major Shona dialects; Karanga, Zezuru, Manyika and Korekore. Minor Shona language dialects have, to a large extent, been ignored. However, they are still part of the Shona language. Korekore is one minor Shona dialect that I have elected to include because of its richness in vocabulary. There are numerous words that, as far as I know, are nonexistent in the major dialects, but are common words in Korekore. Indoctrination by colonialists has led to the general mindset of the average Zimbabwean that it is uncivilized to speak in these dialects. It is for this reason that Shona people such as Ndau, Korekore, and others, are ashamed to speak vernacular in public.

[编辑] Written Shona is constantly evolving. Unfortunately the language is deteriorating because of the tendency to assimilate foreign languages. It is no longer a pure language as spoken by my grand parents. The corruption of the language is recent.

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