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| Shona from Zimbabwe |
 Home Speakers: Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana Background It is spoken by at least 9 million people as a first language (the other main language spoken in Zimbabwe is Ndebele) and belongs to the Benue-Congo family, Bantu group. In Zimbabwe it is also spoken as lingua franca. The main varieties are Karanga, Korekore, Zezuru and Kalanga, but modern Standard Shona is "Union Shona", a koiné based on some of these important varieties. Reprinted from www.unhchr.ch/udhr/ |
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