Official Languages

Official status is a legal designation. It requires a constitution, language act or charter, which this platform has not yet loaded — speaker numbers cannot establish it.

Languages spoken here

Afrikaans (secondary) · Chichewa (secondary) · Gujarati (secondary) · Marathi (secondary) · Modern Greek (secondary) · Modern Greek (biblical terms) (secondary) · Nyanja (secondary) · Portuguese (secondary) · Portuguese (Brazilian) (secondary) · Shona (secondary) · Tumbuka (secondary) · Xhosa (secondary) · Zimbabwe Sign Language (secondary) · Zulu (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Zimbabwe

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Shona-Karanga	4183000	Shona	Christianity
Shona-Zezuru	2984000	Shona	Christianity
Ndebele, Tabele	2060000	Ndebele (Zimbabwe)	Christianity
Shona-Korekore	1567000	Shona	Christianity
Ndau	1192000	Ndau	Ethnic Religions
Shona	1185000	Shona	Christianity
Nyanja	511000	Chichewa	Christianity
Manyika	511000	Manyika	Christianity
Tonga, Zambezi	312000	Tonga (Zambia)	Christianity
Kalanga	247000	Kalanga	Christianity
Zulu	215000	Zulu	Christianity
Kunda	212000	Kunda	Christianity
Pedi, North Sotho	212000	Sotho, Northern	Christianity
Sena	173000	Sena	Christianity
Lozi	168000	Lozi	Christianity
Tsonga	156000	Tsonga	Christianity
Birwa	135000	Birwa	Ethnic Religions
Nambya	131000	Nambya	Ethnic Religions
Lembaa	115000	Venda	Ethnic Religions
Tswana	110000	Setswana	Christianity
Afrikaner	108000	Afrikaans	Christianity
Swazi	96000	Swati	Christianity
Deaf	74000	Zimbabwe Sign Language	Unknown
Nsenga	61000	Nsenga	Christianity
Tawara	53000	Tawara	Christianity
Tswana-Tawana	39000	Setswana	Christianity
Bemba	39000	Bemba	Christianity
Nyungwe	38000	Nyungwe	Ethnic Religions
Xhosa	38000	Xhosa	Christianity
Gujarati	35000	Gujarati	Hinduism
Doma, Vadoma	22000	Shona	Ethnic Religions
Portuguese	19000	Portuguese	Christianity
Tumbuka	19000	Tumbuka	Christianity
Makhuwa-Meetto	19000	Makhuwa-Meetto	Ethnic Religions
Greek	9100	Greek	Christianity
British	8500	English	Christianity
Dombe	7900	Dombe	Ethnic Religions
Tshara-Tshao	5200	Tshuwau	Ethnic Religions
Tswa, Hlengwe	4400	Tswa	Ethnic Religions
Jewish, Marathi-speaking	500	Marathi	Judaism

Languages

35 languages recorded here.

Afrikaans

Bemba

Birwa

Chichewa

Dombe

English

Greek

Gujarati

Kalanga

Kunda

Lozi

Makhuwa-Meetto

Manyika

Marathi

Nambya

Ndau

Ndebele (Zimbabwe)

Nsenga

Nyungwe

Portuguese

Sena

Setswana

Shona

Sotho, Northern

Swati

Tawara

Tonga (Zambia)

Tshuwau

Tsonga

Tswa

Tumbuka

Venda

Xhosa

Zimbabwe Sign Language

Zulu

All catalogue fields

155 fields recorded

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iso3: ZWE
iso2: ZW
ctry: Zimbabwe
poplpeoples: 17073000
cntpeoples: 40
cntpeopleslr: 3
poplpeopleslr: 97000
jpscalectry: 5
rol3officiallanguage: eng
officiallang: English
rlg3primary: 1
religionprimary: Christianity
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percentevangelical: 25.348570046648
c_10_40window: N
rog2: AFR
continent: Africa
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regionname: Africa, East and Southern
workersneeded: 3
harvest_rog3: ZI
harvest_iso3: ZWE
harvest_iso2: ZW
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harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: ZW
harvest_countrynumber: 236
harvest_ctry: Zimbabwe
harvest_ctryshort: Zimbabwe
harvest_altname: Rhodesia
harvest_countrynamechinese: 津巴布韦
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 津巴布韦
harvest_countrynamedutch: Zimbabwe
harvest_countrynamefrench: Zimbabwe
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Zimbabwe
harvest_countrynamegerman: Simbabwe
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Simbabwe
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Zimbabwe
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Zimbabwe
harvest_countrynameitalian: Zimbabwe
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Zimbabwe
harvest_countrynamekorean: 짐바브웨
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 짐바브웨
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Zimbabwe
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Zimbabwe
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Zimbábue
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Zimbábue
harvest_countrynamerussian: Зимбабве
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Зимбабве
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harvest_germanconcatenationprefix: in
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix: di
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harvest_russianconcatenationprefix: B
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harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
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harvest_unsr: 014
harvest_worldabc: C
harvest_maniregioncode: AI
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harvest_prayercastvideo: https://prayercast.com/zimbabwe.html
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harvest_jpscale: 5
harvest_c_10_40window: N
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal: N
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harvest_bibleshortagerank: 12
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harvest_literacyrate: 89
harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized: 32
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harvest_rol3secondarylanguage: sna
harvest_rlg3primary: 1
harvest_rlg4primary: 2
harvest_pctanimist: 19.2
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harvest_pctbuddhism: 0.01
harvest_pctchinese: 0
harvest_pcthindu: 0.08
harvest_pctislam: 1.1
harvest_pctsikh: 0
harvest_pctjudaism: 0.02
harvest_pctnonreligious: 1.4
harvest_pctother: 0
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harvest_pctchristianprotestant: 22.62
harvest_pctchristianindependent: 44.75
harvest_pctchristiananglican: 2.9
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic: 9.66
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 0.04
harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 1.35
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 3.47
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: -6.800000015817728
harvest_pctchristianother: 0
harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A013
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
harvest_hdivalue: 0.516
harvest_hdirank: 154
harvest_internetusers: 23.1
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harvest_flashmapzoomy: -148
harvest_googlemapzoom: 6
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harvest_googlemaplng: 30
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harvest_ctrylongitude: 29.154857
harvest_securitylevel: 0
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/zimbabwe/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 101
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 2.323542306006138
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=zw&joshua=zi
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-zimbabwe
harvest_internetusage: 27
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2017
harvest_areasquaremiles: 150873
harvest_areasquarekilometers: 390759
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 75
harvest_countryphonecode: 263
harvest_owpctchristian1986: 51.5
harvest_owpctevangelical1986: 7
harvest_owpctchristian1993: 48.8
harvest_owpctevangelical1993: 14.3
harvest_owpctchristian2001: 71.70999999999999
harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 25.3
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .zw
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/zimbabwe
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00