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Name: Shona Alternate Names: "Swina"; Chishona Spoken in: Malawi, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe Number of speakers: 10,700,000 in Zimbabwe. 4,500,000 Karanga (Chebanne and Nthapelelang 2000), 1,700,000 Korekore (Chebanne and Nthapelelang 2000), 3,200,000 Zezuru (Chebanne and Nthapelelang 2000), 1,300,000 Shona. Population total all countries: 10,759,200 (Ethnologue) Code: sna Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian) Parent Subgroup: Shona (S.10) (sona) Child Dialect Groups: Zezuru; Chizezuru; Bazezuru; Bazuzura; Mazizuru; Vazezuru; Wazezuru (sna-zez) Karanga; Chikaranga (sna-kar) Korekore; Northern Shona; Goba; Gova; Shangwe; Korikori; Makorekore; Wakorikori; Gowa (sna-kor) Child Dialects: Toko (sna-tok) Hwesa (sna-hwe)