Country Info

Zimbabwe Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 11,541,064 people (84% of Zimbabwe) that can read or write at least one language.

9 Writing Systems used in Zimbabwe

Shona (Latin)

sn-latn
language code
11,182,131
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
5,798,142
people

North Ndebele (Latin)

nd-latn
language code
1,656,612
people

Manyika (Latin)

mxc-latn
language code
897,331
people

Ndau (Latin)

ndc-latn
language code
842,111
people

Kalanga (Latin)

kck-latn
language code
731,670
people

Nyanja (Latin)

ny-latn
language code
262,296
people

Venda (Latin)

ve-latn
language code
88,352
people

Tswana (Latin)

tn-latn
language code
30,371
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR