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