Editing Shona language (section)

==Alphabet==
* A - {{lang|sn|a}} - {{IPA|[a]}}
* B - {{lang|sn|ba}} - {{IPA|[ɓ]}}
* Bh - {{lang|sn|bha}} - {{IPA|[b̤]}}
* Ch (Č) - {{lang|sn|cha}} - {{IPA|[t͡ʃ]}}
* D - {{lang|sn|da}} - {{IPA|[ɗ]}}
* Dh (Ď) - {{lang|sn|dha}} - {{IPA|[d̤]}}
* E - {{lang|sn|e}} - {{IPA|[e]}}
* F - {{lang|sn|fa}} - {{IPA|[f]}}
* G - {{lang|sn|ga}} - {{IPA|[ɡ̤]}}
* H - {{lang|sn|ha}} - {{IPA|[ɦ]}}
* I - {{lang|sn|i}} - {{IPA|[i]}}
* J - {{lang|sn|ja}} - {{IPA|[d͡ʒ̤]}}
* K - {{lang|sn|ka}} - {{IPA|[k]}}
* M - {{lang|sn|ma}} - {{IPA|[m]}}
* N - {{lang|sn|na}} - {{IPA|[n]}}
* Nh (Ň) - {{lang|sn|nha}} - {{IPA|[n̤]}}
* O - {{lang|sn|o}} - {{IPA|[o]}}
* P - {{lang|sn|pa}} - {{IPA|[p]}}
* R - {{lang|sn|ra}} - {{IPA|[r]}}
* S - {{lang|sn|sa}} - {{IPA|[s]}}
* Sh (Š) - {{lang|sn|sha}} - {{IPA|[ʃ]}}
* T - {{lang|sn|ta}} - {{IPA|[t]}}
* U - {{lang|sn|u}} - {{IPA|[u]}}
* V - {{lang|sn|va}} - {{IPA|[ʋ]}}
* Vh - {{lang|sn|vha}} - {{IPA|[v̤]}}
* W - {{lang|sn|wa}} - {{IPA|[w]}}
* Y - {{lang|sn|ya}} - {{IPA|[j]}}
* Z - {{lang|sn|za}} - {{IPA|[z̤]}}
* Zh (Ž) - {{lang|sn|zha}} - {{IPA|[ʒ̤]}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Dzidzai Shona pa Kombiyuta - The Shona Alphabet |url=https://www.africa.upenn.edu/afl/materials/shona/shonanew/sh-alpha.html |website=African Studies Center - African Languages at Penn |access-date=10 December 2020}}</ref>
The letters "L", "Q", and "X" are not used in Shona and are used only in loanwords.

===Letter combinations===
[[File:Book of Mormon - Shona.jpg|thumb|Shona version of the ''[[Book of Mormon]]'']]
* bv - {{IPA|[b͡v̤]}}
* dz - {{IPA|[d͡z̤]}}
* dzv - {{IPA|[d͡z̤ᵝ]}}
* dy - {{IPA|[d̤ʲg]}}
* mb - {{IPA|[ᵐb]}}
* mbw - {{IPA|[ᵐbʷ]}}
* mh - {{IPA|[m̤]}}
* mv - {{IPA|[mʋ̤]}}
* nd - {{IPA|[ⁿd]}}
* ng - {{IPA|[ŋ]}}
* nj - {{IPA|[ⁿd͡ʒ̤]}}
* ny - {{IPA|[ɲ]}}
* nz - {{IPA|[ⁿz̤]}}
* nzv -	{{IPA|[ⁿz̤ᵝ]}}
* pf - {{IPA|[p͡f]}}
* sv - {{IPA|[sᶲ]}}
* sw - {{IPA|[skʷ]}}
* ts - {{IPA|[t͡s]}}
* tsv - {{IPA|[t͡sᶲ]}}
* ty - {{IPA|[tʲk]}}
* zv - {{IPA|[z̤ᵝ]}}

===Old alphabet===
From 1931 to 1955, Unified Shona was written with an alphabet developed by linguist [[Clement Martyn Doke]]. This included these letters:

:[[ɓ]] (b with hook),
:[[ɗ]] (d with hook), 
:[[ŋ]] (n with leg),
:[[ȿ]] (s with swash tail), 
:[[ʋ]] (v with hook), 
:[[ɀ]] (z with swash tail).

In 1955, these were replaced by letters or digraphs from the basic Latin alphabet. For example, today {{angle bracket|sv}} is used for {{angle bracket|ȿ}} and {{angle bracket|zv}} is used for {{angle bracket|ɀ}}.