Shona (sna-sna) = 3 (Wider communication). Recognized language (2013, Constitution, Article 6(1)). Migrated to what is today’s Zimbabwe during the great Bantu expansion in the first half of the first millennium; became widespread in the 11th century. Gained vitality duiring British control at the end of the 19th century. Used in trade, literary tradition, and education.
The world surveyed: the famous voyages and travailes of Vincent Le Blanc, or, White, of Marseilles, who from the age of fourteen years, to threescore and eighteen, travelled through most parts of the world, viz. the East and West Indies, Persia, Pegu, the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco, Guinny, and through all Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope, into Alexandria, by the territories of Monomotapa, of Preste John and Egypt, into the Mediterranean isles, and through the principal provinces of Europe; containing a more exact description of several parts of the world, then hath hitherto been done by any other authour
Des difficultés de traduire la littérature africaine ou défense et illustration des notes de bas de page: propos d'une première traduction en français d'un roman shona, Ndiko kupindana kwamazuva de Ch. Mungoshi
A hunter's wanderings in Africa: being a narrative of nine years amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa, containing accounts of explorations beyond the Zambesi, on the River Chobe, and in the Matabele and Mashuna cuntries, with notes upon the natural history and present distribution of all the large Mammalia
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[sna] at ISO 639-3
[sna] at OLAC
[sna] at IMTVault
Karanga at WALS
Shona at Grambank
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