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Since the adoption of the 2013 Constitution, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, namely Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Koisan, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, and Xhosa. [3] [4] [5] Zimbabwe holds the Guinness World Record for the country with the largest number of official languages. [3]
[1] [2] It is available as computer software, an online website and an android app. [3] [4] The dictionary contains over 230,000 definitions including various technical terms. [5] [6] As of 2016, the dictionary has been downloaded approximately 1,000,000 [7] [8] [9] and ranks 100th most visited sites in Sri Lanka.
isiNdebele dictionary, 1910. Northern Ndebele (English: / ə n d ə ˈ b eɪ l eɪ /), also called Ndebele, isiNdebele saseNyakatho, [citation needed] Zimbabwean Ndebele, [2] [4] Sindebele or North Ndebele, [5] [6] associated with the term Matabele, is a Bantu language spoken by the Northern Ndebele people which belongs to the Nguni group of languages.
Sinhala idioms (Sinhala: රූඩි, rūḍi) and colloquial expressions that are widely used to communicate figuratively, as with any other developed language.This page also contains a list of old and popular Sinhala proverbs, which are known as prastā piruḷu (ප්රස්තා පිරුළු) in Sinhala.
Zimbabwe is host to some of the oldest newspapers in Africa; The Herald, Zimbabwe's major newspaper, replaced the Mashonaland and Zambesian Times, which was present from the late 1890s. The Herald has seen a decline in readership from 132,000 to between 50,000 and 100,000 in recent years. [ 1 ]
The newspaper's origins date back to the 19th century. Its forerunner was launched on 27 June 1891 by William Fairbridge [1] for the Argus group of South Africa. Named the Mashonaland Herald and Zambesian Times, it was a weekly, hand-written news sheet produced using the cyclostyle duplicating process.
Exception from the standard are the romanization of Sinhala long "ä" ([æː]) as "ää", and the non-marking of prenasalized stops. Sinhala words of English origin mainly came about during the period of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka. This period saw absorption of several English words into the local language brought about by the ...
Zimbabwe's first internet service provider (ISP), Data Control & Systems, was established in 1994. [2] In 1997, the national Posts and Telecommunication Corporation (PTC) built a national Internet backbone to sell bandwidth to private ISPs. [2] The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) oversees ISP licensing.