Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Moi
  
Mhoro
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Waita zvako
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Wakadini zvako?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Urare zvakanaka
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Manheru
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Masikati
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Mangwanani
  
Please
haluta
  
Ndinokumbirawo
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Ndineurombo
  
Bye
Heippa
  
bye
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Ndinokuda
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Pamusoro
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Hwesa
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Zimbabwe
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Karanga
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
southern Zimbabwe
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Zezuru
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
8.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
French Name
finnois
  
shona
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Schona-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1543
  
20th century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
sn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
sna
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
sna
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
sna
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
core1255
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
99-AUT-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Finnish and Shona Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Finnish and Shona greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Shona language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Shona word for "Thank You" is Waita zvako. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Shona Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Shona Difficulty
The Finnish vs Shona difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Shona Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Finnish and Shona are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Shona, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Shona time required is Not Available.