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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

41
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe

Second Language

Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • 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

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3337
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2146
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Mhoro

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
Waita zvako

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Wakadini zvako?

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Urare zvakanaka

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Manheru

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Masikati

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Mangwanani

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Ndinokumbirawo

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
Ndineurombo

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
bye

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ndinokuda

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
Pamusoro

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Hwesa

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

30,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Karanga

Where They Speak

Olonets
southern Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.001,100,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Zezuru

Where They Speak

Novgorod
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0016.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

134
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million8.30 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
chiShona

Alternative Names

Russki
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru

French Name

russe
shona

German Name

Russisch
Schona-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ʃoːna]

Ethnicity

Russians
Shona people

History

Origin

1000 AD
20th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Benue-Congo

Branch

Eastern
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
Old Shona and Middle Shona

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Standard Shona

Language Position

7107
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Signed Shona

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
sn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
sna

ISO 639 2/B

rus
sna

ISO 639 3

rus
sna

ISO 639 6

rus
sna

Glottocode

russ1263
core1255

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
99-AUT-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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Russian and Shona Alphabets

Russian and Shona Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Shona. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Shona Alphabets there are 37 letters. To learn Russian and Shona languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Shona languages. The Russian phonology consist Russian vowels and Russian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Russian greetings vs Shona greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Shona are Most Spoken Languages.

All Russian and Shona Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Russian and Shona dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Shona language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Shona Dialects are spoken in different Shona speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Shona Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Shona dialects include: Hwesa , Karanga. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Russian and Shona Speaking population

Russian and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % 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 Russian and Shona on Russian vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Shona Language Codes

Russian and Shona language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Shona Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.