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Shona often refers to: * Shona people, a Southern African people * Shona language, a Bantu language spoken by Shona people today Shona may also refer to: * ''Shona'' (album), 1994 album by New Zealand singer Shona Laing * Shona (given name) * Shona cabbage, a common name for the vegetable ''Cleome gynandra'' * Shona languages, a wider group of languages as defined in the early 20th Century * Shona music, the traditional music of the Shona people * Shona hopper, a butterfly * Shona hotspot, a geographical feature in the Atlantic ocean * Kingdom of Zimbabwe, a Shona state in the 13th to 15th Centuries * Eilean Shona Eilean Shona ( gd, Eilean Seòna) is a tidal island in Loch Moidart, Scotland. The modern name may be from the Old Norse for "sea island". The pre-Norse Gaelic name, as recorded by Adomnán was or , meaning 'foreshore island', similar to the d ..., a Scottish island {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shona People
The Shona people () are part of the Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa, primarily living in Zimbabwe where they form the majority of the population, as well as Mozambique, South Africa, and a worldwide diaspora including global celebrities such as Thandiwe Newton. There are five major Shona language/dialect clusters : Karanga, Zezuru, Korekore, Manyika and Ndau. Regional classification The Shona people are grouped according to the dialect of the language they speak. Their estimated population is 16.6 million: * Karanga or Southern Shona (about 8.5 million people) * Zezuru or Central Shona (5.2 million people) * Korekore or Northern Shona (1.7 million people) * Manyika tribe or Eastern Shona (1.2 million) in Zimbabwe (861,000) and Mozambique (173,000). * Ndau in Mozambique (1,580,000) and Zimbabwe (800,000). History During the 11th century, the Karanga people formed kingdoms on the Zimbabwe plateau. Construction, then, began on Great Zimbabwe; the capital of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shona Language
Shona (; sn, chiShona) is a Bantu language of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. It was codified by the colonial government in the 1950s. According to ''Ethnologue'', Shona, comprising the Zezuru, Korekore and Karanga dialects, is spoken by about 7.5 million people. The Manyika dialect of Shona is listed separately by ''Ethnologue'', and is spoken by 1,025,000 people. The larger group of historically related languages—called Shona languages by linguists—also includes Ndau (Eastern Shona) and Kalanga (Western Shona). Instruction Shona is a written standard language with an orthography and grammar that was codified during the early 20th century and fixed in the 1950s. In the 1920s, the Rhodesian administration was faced with the challenge of preparing schoolbooks and other materials in the various languages and dialects and requested the recommendation of South African linguist Clement Doke. The first novel in Shona, Solomon Mutswairo's ''Feso'', was published in 1957. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shona (album)
''Shona'' is a 1994 album by Shona Laing released on the TriStar label.Billboard - Feb 25, 1995 - Page 47 TriStar — the label that released Kiwi singer/ songwriter Shona Laing's recent album, "Shona" It reached No. 35 on the New Zealand album chart. The single "Kick Back" failed to chart. Track listing #"Rome" #"Kick Back" #"Heat and Smoke" #"Man with the Wild Name" #"Hard World" #"Heartless Bones" #"American Friends" #"Cold Country" #"It's True" #"Decent Thing" #"Hard and Fast" #"Andrew Said" #"Harmlessness" References 1993 albums Shona Laing albums Epic Records albums {{1990s-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shona (given Name)
Shona is a female name of Gaelic origin. (Scottish and Irish) Given name *Shona (singer), French singer * Shona Auerbach, British film director * Shona Banda (born 1978/9), American medical cannabis rights activist *Shona Barbour (born 1979), Canadian curler * Shona Bell (1924-2011), New Zealand palaeontologist *Shona Brown (born c. 1966), American businesswoman * Shona Brownlee, British skier and RAF aircraftwoman * Shona Rapira Davies (born 1951), sculptor and painter of Ngati Wai ki Aotea tribal descent *Shona Fraser (born 1975), British music journalist * Shona Holmes, Canadian woman who controversially underwent treatment for a Rathke's cleft cyst in the United States and claimed that it threatened her life * Shona Kinloch (born 1962), Scottish artist * Shona Laing (born 1955), New Zealand musician * Shona Le Mottee, Canadian Celtic/pop fiddler and vocalist * Shona Macdonald, Scottish artist and academic * Shona Dunlop MacTavish (1920-2019), New Zealand dancer and dance teache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shona Cabbage
''Cleome gynandra'' is a species of '' Cleome'' that is used as a green vegetable. It is known by many common names including Shona cabbage, African cabbage, spiderwisp, cat's whiskers, , and stinkweed. It is an annual wildflower native to Africa but has become widespread in many tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world. It is an erect, branching plant generally between 25 cm and 60 cm tall. Its sparse leaves are each made up of 3–5 oval-shaped leaflets. The flowers are white, sometimes changing to rose pink as they age. The seed is a brown 1.5 mm diameter sphere. The leaves and flowers are both edible. The leaves have a strong bitter, sometimes peppery flavor similar to mustard greens. Uses Typically, the leaves and shoots are eaten boiled or in stews. The leaves are often eaten in Sub-Saharan Africa, where they are often dried for storage, then cooked with milk or butter to reduce its bitter taste. In Uganda and Tanzania, the leaves are cooked with grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shona Languages
The Shona languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone S.10 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages form a valid node. They are: Eastern Shona group :: Ndau (S.15) Central Shona group :: Korekore (S.11) and Tawara :: Zezuru (S.12) :: Manyika (S.13) and Tewe :: Karanga (S.14) Western Shona group :: Kalanga (S.16) ::Nambya In the 1920s, the Rhodesian administration was faced with the challenge of preparing schoolbooks and other materials in the various languages and dialects and requested the recommendation of the South African linguist Clement Doke. Based on his 1931 report, Standard Shona was developed from the Central Shona varieties. Because of the presence of the capital city in the Zezuru region, that variety has come to dominate in Standard Shona. Some classifications include the Shona group in Southern Bantu The Southern Bantu languages are a large group of Bantu languages, largely validated in Janson (1991/92 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shona Music
Shona music is the music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. There are several different types of traditional Shona music including mbira, singing, hosho and drumming. Very often, this music will be accompanied by dancing, and participation by the audience. In Shona music, there is little distinction between the performer and the audience, both are often actively involved in the music-making, and both are important in the religious ceremonies where Shona music is often heard. Mbira The mbira is a traditional instrument of the Shona People often used in religious ceremonies. There are several different varieties of mbira including the mbira dzavadzimu and mbira nyunga nyunga. Shona music is well known as representative of mbira ("thumb piano") music. The performer of the " kushaura" (lead mbira part) often acts also as the lead vocalist, selecting a known melody or mbira pattern to accompany selected lyrics, usually a phrase or a few lines of text which are then commented upon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shona Hopper
''Platylesches shona'', the Shona hopper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Shaba), Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea .... Adults are on wing from July to October and again from March to May, probably in two generations per year. References Butterflies described in 1937 Erionotini {{Erionotini-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shona Hotspot
The Shona or Meteor hotspot is a volcanic hotspot located in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Its zig-zag-shaped hotspot track, a chain of seamounts and ridges, stretches from its current location at or near the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to South Africa. Location The present location of the hotspot is disputed. proposed a location below a small seamount, the "Shona Seamount" (), just west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. This location was used by . however proposed , the eastern end of the Shona Rise/ Shona Ridge. simply located the hotspot at where its volcanic trail begin. Discovery The hotspot was first proposed by . They noted that the Meteor Rise and Cape Rise seamount chain (west of South Africa) could not be associated with the Bouvet hotspot and therefore predicted the existence of another hotspot near the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Hartnady and le Roex explained the peculiar zig-zag pattern of this seamount chain as the result of the hotspo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Zimbabwe
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe (c. 1220–1450) was a medieval Shona ( Karanga) kingdom located in modern-day Zimbabwe. Its capital, today's Masvingo (meaning fortified), which is commonly called Great Zimbabwe, is the largest stone structure in precolonial Southern Africa. This kingdom came about after the collapse of the Kingdom of Mapungubwe. Name The name "Zimbabwe" stems from a Shona term for Great Zimbabwe, a medieval city in the country's south-east whose remains are now a protected site. Two different theories address the origin of the word. Many sources hold that "Zimbabwe" derives from ''dzimba-dza-mabwe'', translated from the Karanga dialect of Shona as "houses of stones" (''dzimba'' = plural of ''imba'', "house"; ''mabwe'' = plural of ''bwe'', "stone"). The Kalanga-speaking Shona people live around Great Zimbabwe in the modern-day province of Masvingo. Archaeologist Peter Garlake claims that "Zimbabwe" represents a contracted form of ''dzimba-hwe'', which means "v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eilean Shona
Eilean Shona ( gd, Eilean Seòna) is a tidal island in Loch Moidart, Scotland. The modern name may be from the Old Norse for "sea island". The pre-Norse Gaelic name, as recorded by Adomnán was or , meaning 'foreshore island', similar to the derivation of Erraid. History In 1851 there were reports of evacuations and emigrations of 37 families from the island and the nearby settlement of Dorlinn in the wake of potato blight. In 1856 the sale price of the island was £6,500. Until the middle of the 18th century, Eilean Shona was populated with a number of crofters. The main house was a small hunting lodge owned, in the middle of the 19th century, by a seafaring Captain Swinburne. He collected numerous types of pine on his travels and established what became one of the most diverse pinetums in Europe. At the end of the 19th century Edinburgh architect Robert Lorimer was commissioned by the island's owner, a Mr Thompson, to remodel the main house, doubling its size. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
