Shona is a Bantu language spoken by around ten million people. There is more than one dialect (for example Manyika and Ndau) but standard Shona is based on the dialects spoken by the Karanga and Zezuru people.
A useful Shona dictionary providing variants of Shona words.
Bantu language
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