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
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Alphabets in
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Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
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
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
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
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
core1255
ukra1253
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
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.