The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. (Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.)
Shona is a language of Zimbabwe. Roughly 75% of the population there speak it as a first language.
Shona (chiShona) is spoken by 8 to 9 million people, the vast majority living in Zimbabwe. There are also Shona-speaking populations in southern Zambia and Botswana.
A linguist, Clement Doke, is credited with the recommendation of a unified Shona language from several dialects in a report in 1931.
