Countries
Ukraine
  
Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- 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
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Mhoro
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
Waita zvako
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Wakadini zvako?
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Urare zvakanaka
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Manheru
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Masikati
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Mangwanani
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Ndinokumbirawo
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Ndineurombo
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
bye
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Ndinokuda
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Pamusoro
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Hwesa
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Zimbabwe
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Karanga
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
southern Zimbabwe
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Zezuru
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
25.00 million
  
40
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
8.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
shona
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Schona-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1561
  
20th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
sn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
sna
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
sna
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
sna
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
core1255
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
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
  
Ukrainian and Shona Speaking population
Ukrainian and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which Ukrainian and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of Ukrainian and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Ukrainian language is 0.46 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Ukrainian and Shona on Ukrainian vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Ukrainian and Shona Language Codes
Ukrainian and Shona language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Ukrainian and Shona Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.