Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Russia
  
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Mhoro
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Waita zvako
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Wakadini zvako?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Urare zvakanaka
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Manheru
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Masikati
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Mangwanani
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Ndinokumbirawo
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Ndineurombo
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
bye
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Ndinokuda
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Pamusoro
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Hwesa
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Karanga
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
southern Zimbabwe
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Zezuru
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
25.00 million
  
40
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
8.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
French Name
russe
  
shona
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Schona-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
20th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
sn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
sna
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
sna
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
sna
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
core1255
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
99-AUT-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Russian 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 Russian and Shona greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Shona language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Shona word for "Thank You" is Waita zvako. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Shona Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Shona Difficulty
The Russian vs Shona difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian 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 Russian and Shona are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Shona, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Shona time required is Not Available.