African Languages featured in our programme
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Afrikanische Sprachen in unserem Programm
Anywa
Arabic
Bambara
Bantu
Berber
Dagara
Chadic
Cushitic
Ewe
Gur
Hausa
Herero
Iraqw
Kanuri
Khoisan
Oromo
Saharan
Shona
Songhay
Swahili

Shona

Shona belongs to the Southern Bantu Languages and is spoken as the first language by about 3 million people in Zimbabwe and Mocambique. Furthermore, small ethnic groups throughout this region use Shona as vehicular or second language.

 

Siegmund Brauner: Einführung ins Shona
Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher Volume 5

Siegmund Brauner: A Grammatical Sketch of Shona. Including Historical Notes
Grammatical Analyses of African Languages Volume 4

 

Further publications on Shona culture

Gerd Grupe: Traditional mbira Music of the Shona (Zimbabwe). Harmonic Progression and their cognitive dimension
Iwalewa Forum – Working Papers in African Arts and Culture, 2/1998