Shonan.

1930 C. M. Doke Rep. Unification Shona Dial. 61 The Language Committee..hope to unify..the dialects of the area..known as Mashonaland and the name for the language should..be one which indicates this width of range. No name but ‘Shona’ has been suggested which can do this.

1930 C. G. Seligman Races of Afr. viii. 187 The Shona peoples of Southern Rhodesia and of Portuguese East Africa immediately south of the Zambesi as far as the Sabi River.

1936 Discovery June 179/1 The Shona..were the later or perhaps the military occupiers of the Hill which we call Mapungubwe.

1955 G. Fortune (title) An analytical grammar of Shona.

1976 Times 26 Aug. 12/6 The Shona..comprise about 75 per cent of the..population.

1976 Times 26 Aug. 12/7 Mr. Joshua Nkomo..is apparently a Kalanga..one of the smallest Shona groups..whose language is furthest from basic Shona.

1979 Financial Times 29 Jan. 16/4 The right wing says there is still time to negotiate a three tier federal solution which would avoid domination of the minority Ndebele and the minority Whites by the majority Shonas.