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