Download or read book A Basic English-Shona Dictionary written by Desmond Dale and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1975 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential addition to the reference works on Shona, a Bantu language, and one of Zimbabwe's major languages, spoken by about three quarters of the country's population. Shona is spoken as far north as Congo, and Kenya, and as far south as South Africa. The dictionary contains some 5,500 entries, drawings, examples of usages, and illustrations.