Shona, or chiShona, is a language spoken by about seven million people mainly in Mashonaland in northern Zimbabwe, and also in neighbouring South Africa and Mozambique. The language is written in Latin (Roman) letters in two orthographies. Part of the Scriptures were first translated into Shona in 1938, the New Testament in 1941. The Bhaibheri (Bible) was printed as the Magwaro Matsvene Amwari (Union Version) in 1949. Shona speaking Christians are mainly evangelical Protestant, especially Methodist. Bible work is done by the Bible Society of Zimbabwe, who introduced the interconfessional version in 1995. The Bible is printed in editions with or without the deuterocanonical books/ Apocrypha (Apokrifa).
The Shona language or chiShona is spoken in Zimbabwe. Shona Union is based on the dialect spoken by the Karanga.
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