Countries
Zimbabwe
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Mhoro
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Waita zvako
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
Manheru
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
Masikati
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
Mangwanani
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Ndineurombo
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
bye
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Ndinokuda
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Hwesa
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dialect 2
Karanga
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Zezuru
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
8.30 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Not Available
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
Not Available
  
French Name
shona
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Schona-Sprache
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
20th century
  
1561
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Not Available
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sn
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sna
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
sna
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
sna
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
core1255
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Shona and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Shona and Ukrainian language. Shona word for "Hello" is Mhoro or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Shona Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Shona vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Shona vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Shona Alphabets and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Shona and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Shona is Not Available while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.